linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 3/3] mm: add anonymous vma name refcounting

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Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:01:41 -0700
From:   Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/3] mm: add anonymous vma name refcounting

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 7:53 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:46:57 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > I wish it was that simple and for some names like [anon:.bss] or
> > > > > > [anon:dalvik-zygote space] reserving a unique id would work, however
> > > > > > some names like [anon:dalvik-/system/framework/boot-core-icu4j.art]
> > > > > > are generated dynamically at runtime and include package name.
> > > > >
> > > > > Valuable information
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, I should have described it clearer the first time around.
> > >
> > > If it gets this fancy then the 80 char limit is likely to become a
> > > significant limitation and the choice should be explained & justified.
> > >
> > > Why not 97?  1034?  Why not just strndup_user() and be done with it?
> >
> > The original patch from 8 years ago used 256 as the limit but Rasmus
> > argued that the string content should be human-readable, so 80 chars
> > seems to be a reasonable limit (see:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/d8619a98-2380-ca96-001e-60fe9c6204a6@rasmusvillemoes.dk),
> > which makes sense to me. We should be able to handle the 80 char limit
> > by trimming it before calling prctl().
>
> What's the downside to making it unlimited?

If we ignore the human-readability argument, I guess the possibility
of abuse and increased memory consumption? I'm guessing parsing such a
string is also easier if there is a known limit?

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