linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28, limiting cpu time doesn't work

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:14:36 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Lojkin <ia6432@...ox.ru>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: 2.6.28, limiting cpu time doesn't work

On 03/19, Peter Lojkin wrote:
>
> after upgrade to 2.6.28 ulimit -t doesn't work. for example:
>
> bash# ulimit -t 3; cpuhog
>
> (where cpuhog is any program that continuously use cpu)
> with 2.6.27.20 cpuhog gets killed after 3sec as expected.
> with 2.6.28, 2.6.28.8, 2.6.29-rc8-git4 it's keep running indefinitely.
> ulimit -a and /proc/<pid>/limits show that cputime limit was set correctly.

Found this message on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911 ...

I _think_ posix_cpu_timers_init_group() is not right, it should copy
cputime_expires->prof_exp.

Peter, any chance you can test the (uncompiled/untested) patch below?

Also, I assume that something like

	$ ulimit -t 3
	$ while true; do true; done

kills the shell correctly, yes? IOW, I suspect that ulimit works, but
cpuhog never check RLIMIT_CPU because fastpath_timer_check() always
returns 0 due to task_cputime_zero(&sig->cputime_expires) == T.

I'm afraid we need the fix fo 2.6.29 as well, but I am looking at rc3.

Hmm. check_process_timers() updates ->cputime_expires, but it never
clears (say) cputime_expires.prof_exp, why? Can't we just do

	if (cputime_gt(sig->cputime_expires.prof_exp, prof_expires))
		sig->cputime_expires.prof_exp = prof_expires;
at the end?

Oleg.

--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -790,9 +790,7 @@ static void posix_cpu_timers_init_group(
 	sig->it_prof_incr = cputime_zero;
 
 	/* Cached expiration times. */
-	sig->cputime_expires.prof_exp = cputime_zero;
-	sig->cputime_expires.virt_exp = cputime_zero;
-	sig->cputime_expires.sched_exp = 0;
+	sig->cputime_expires = current->signal->cputime_expires;
 
 	/* The timer lists. */
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->cpu_timers[0]);

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/