linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm: memcontrol: Don't flood OOM messages with no eligible task.

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: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

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

Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:17:24 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, guro@...com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rientjes@...gle.com, yang.s@...baba-inc.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+77e6b28a7a7106ad0def@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: memcontrol: Don't flood OOM messages with no
 eligible task.

On (10/17/18 12:28), Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Michal proposed ratelimiting dump_header() [2]. But I don't think that
> > that patch is appropriate because that patch does not ratelimit
> > 
> >   "%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=%#x(%pGg), nodemask=%*pbl, order=%d, oom_score_adj=%hd\n"
> >   "Out of memory and no killable processes...\n"
[..]
> > Let's make sure that next dump_header() waits for at least 60 seconds from
> > previous "Out of memory and no killable processes..." message.
> 
> Could you explain why this is any better than using a well established
> ratelimit approach?

Tetsuo, let's use a well established rate-limit approach both in
dump_hedaer() and out_of_memory(). I actually was under impression
that Michal added rate-limiting to both of these functions.

The appropriate rate-limit value looks like something that printk()
should know and be able to tell to the rest of the kernel. I don't
think that middle ground will ever be found elsewhere.


printk() knows what consoles are registered, and printk() also knows
(sometimes) what console="..." options the kernel was provided with.
If baud rates ware not provided as console= options, then serial
consoles usually use some default value. We can probably ask consoles.

So *maybe* we can do something like this

//
// WARNING: this is just a sketch. A silly idea.
//          I don't know if we can make it usable.
//

---

int printk_ratelimit_interval(void)
{
       int ret = DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL;
       struct tty_driver *driver = NULL;
       speed_t min_baud = MAX_INT;

       console_lock();
       for_each_console(c) {
               speed_t br;

               if (!c->device)
                       continue;
               if (!(c->flags & CON_ENABLED))
                       continue;
               if (!c->write)
                       continue;
               driver = c->device(c, index);
               if (!driver)
                       continue;

               br = tty_get_baud_rate(tty_driver to tty_struct [???]);
               min_baud = min(min_baud, br);
       }
       console_unlock();

       switch (min_baud) {
       case 115200:
               return ret;

       case ...blah blah...:
               return ret * 2;

       case 9600:
               return ret * 4;
       }
       return ret;
}

---

	-ss