linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] Refactor part of the oom report in dump

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]

Message-ID: <20180604065238.GE19202@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 08:52:38 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     ufo19890607@...il.com
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, aarcange@...hat.com,
        penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp, guro@...com,
        yang.s@...baba-inc.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@...ichuxing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] Refactor part of the oom report in dump_header

On Sat 02-06-18 19:58:52, ufo19890607@...il.com wrote:
> From: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@...ichuxing.com>
> 
> The dump_header does not print the memcg's name when the system
> oom happened, so users cannot locate the certain container which
> contains the task that has been killed by the oom killer.
> 
> I follow the advices of David Rientjes and Michal Hocko, and refactor
> part of the oom report in a backwards compatible way. After this patch,
> users can get the memcg's path from the oom report and check the certain
> container more quickly.

I have earlier suggested that you split this into two parts. One to add
the missing information and the later to convert it to a single printk
output. Reducing the overhead from PATH_MAX to NAME_MAX is a good step
but it still really begs an example why we really insist on a single
printk and that should be in its own changelog.

Sorry if that was not clear previously.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs