netdev - Re: [PATCH net V3 2/2] ptr_ring: fail on large queue size (>64K)

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Message-ID: <36f407ba-14db-e6b8-42e6-f0eacf6da3b2@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:50:31 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V3 2/2] ptr_ring: fail on large queue size (>64K)



On 2018年02月08日 23:50, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:11:22PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2018年02月08日 12:52, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:59:25AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>> We need limit the maximum size of queue, otherwise it may cause
>>>> several side effects e.g slab will warn when the size exceeds
>>>> KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE. Using KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE still looks too so this patch
>>>> tries to limit it to 64K. This value could be revisited if we found a
>>>> real case that needs more.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by:syzbot+e4d4f9ddd4295539735d@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>>>> Fixes: 2e0ab8ca83c12 ("ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointers")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@...hat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 4 ++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
>>>> index 2af71a7..5858d48 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
>>>> @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ struct ptr_ring {
>>>>    	void **queue;
>>>>    };
>>> Seems like a weird location for a define. Either put defines on
>>> top of the file, or near where they are used. I prefer the
>>> second option.
>> Ok.
>>
>>>> +#define PTR_RING_MAX_ALLOC 65536
>>>> +
>>> I guess it's an arbitrary number. Seems like a sufficiently large one,
>>> but pls add a comment so readers don't wonder. And please explain what
>>> it does:
>>>
>>> /* Callers can create ptr_ring structures with userspace-supplied
>>>    * parameters. This sets a limit on the size to make that usecase
>>>    * safe. If you ever change this, make sure to audit all callers.
>>>    */
>>>
>>> Also I think we should generally use either hex 0x10000 or (1 << 16).
>> I agree the number is arbitrary, so I still prefer the KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE
>> especially consider it was used by pfifo_fast now. Try to limit it to an
>> arbitrary may break lots of exist setups. E.g just google "txqueuelen
>> 100000" can give me a lots of search results.
>>
>> We can do any kind of optimization on top but not for -net now.
>>
>> Thanks
> Interesting. I have an idea for fixing this, but maybe
> for now KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE does make sense. It's unfortunate that
> this value is architecture dependent.
>
> The patch still needs code comments though, and fix the math to
> use the proper size.
>

Yes.

Thanks