linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 160/232] mm, memcg: do not high throttle allocators based on wraparound

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:   Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:24:14 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 160/232] mm, memcg: do not high throttle allocators based on wraparound

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

commit 9b8b17541f13809d06f6f873325305ddbb760e3e upstream.

If a cgroup violates its memory.high constraints, we may end up unduly
penalising it.  For example, for the following hierarchy:

  A:   max high, 20 usage
  A/B: 9 high, 10 usage
  A/C: max high, 10 usage

We would end up doing the following calculation below when calculating
high delay for A/B:

  A/B: 10 - 9 = 1...
  A:   20 - PAGE_COUNTER_MAX = 21, so set max_overage to 21.

This gets worse with higher disparities in usage in the parent.

I have no idea how this disappeared from the final version of the patch,
but it is certainly Not Good(tm).  This wasn't obvious in testing because,
for a simple cgroup hierarchy with only one child, the result is usually
roughly the same.  It's only in more complex hierarchies that things go
really awry (although still, the effects are limited to a maximum of 2
seconds in schedule_timeout_killable at a maximum).

[chris@...isdown.name: changelog]
Fixes: e26733e0d0ec ("mm, memcg: throttle allocators based on ancestral memory.high")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>	[5.4.x]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200331152424.GA1019937@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2441,6 +2441,9 @@ static unsigned long calculate_high_dela
 		usage = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
 		high = READ_ONCE(memcg->high);
 
+		if (usage <= high)
+			continue;
+
 		/*
 		 * Prevent division by 0 in overage calculation by acting as if
 		 * it was a threshold of 1 page