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Date:	Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:08:04 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <paul@...lmenage.org>,
	<lizf@...fujitsu.com>, <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	<ebiederm@...ssion.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<gthelen@...gle.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <kirill@...temov.name>,
	<avagin@...allels.com>, <devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/8] tcp buffer limitation: per-cgroup limit

On 10/04/2011 04:48 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 04 octobre 2011 à 16:17 +0400, Glauber Costa a écrit :
>> This patch uses the "tcp_max_mem" field of the kmem_cgroup to
>> effectively control the amount of kernel memory pinned by a cgroup.
>>
>> We have to make sure that none of the memory pressure thresholds
>> specified in the namespace are bigger than the current cgroup.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa<glommer@...allels.com>
>> CC: David S. Miller<davem@...emloft.net>
>> CC: Hiroyouki Kamezawa<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>> CC: Eric W. Biederman<ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>> ---
>
>
>> --- a/include/net/tcp.h
>> +++ b/include/net/tcp.h
>> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_thin_dupack;
>>   struct mem_cgroup;
>>   struct tcp_memcontrol {
>>   	/* per-cgroup tcp memory pressure knobs */
>> +	int tcp_max_memory;
>>   	atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated;
>>   	struct percpu_counter tcp_sockets_allocated;
>>   	/* those two are read-mostly, leave them at the end */
>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>
> So tcp_max_memory is an "int".
>
>
>> +static u64 tcp_read_limit(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft)
>> +{
>> +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
>> +	return memcg->tcp.tcp_max_memory<<  PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +}
>
> 1) Typical integer overflow here.
>
> You need :
>
> return ((u64)memcg->tcp.tcp_max_memory)<<  PAGE_SHIFT;

Thanks for spotting this, Eric.

>
> 2) Could you add const qualifiers when possible to your pointers ?

Well, I'll go over the patches again and see where I can add them.
Any specific place site you're concerned about?
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