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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first
2010/9/15 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>:
>
> Briefly says, to introduce new limit has bad benefit/risk balance. Sadly.

Well, I mostly agree. That said, I do think we could extend the
limiter some ways.

For example, I think the "stack limit / 4" is perfectly sane, but it
would make total sense to perhaps also take into account the AS and
RSS limits.

And I do think that your attempt to use __vm_enough_memory() was good.
It happens to be coded in a way that makes it useless for a one-pass
model, and some of what it does would be too expensive to do up-front
when you can't short-circuit it, but I do think that it would probably
be appropriate to at least try to take the _rough_ code there and use
it as a limit for maximum stack size too.

For example, we could have a function somewhat like

unsigned long max_stack_size(void)
{
unsigned long allowed, used, limit;

switch (sysctl_overcommit_memory) {
case OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS:
allowed = ULONG_MAX;
break;
case OVERCOMMIT_GUESS:
.. maybe we can come up with some upper bound here too ..
break;
default:
allowed = (totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
* sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100;
if (!cap_sys_admin)
allowed -= allowed / 32;
allowed += total_swap_pages;
/* Don't let a single process grow too big:
leave 3% of the size of this process for other processes */
if (mm)
allowed -= mm->total_vm / 32;
/* What is already committed to? */
used = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
if (used > allowed)
return 0;
allowed -= used;
break;
}
limit = ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4;
if (allowed > limit)
allowed = limit;
return allowed;
}

which we'd call once at the beginning of the execve(), and then
remember that result and use it instead of the current 'rlimit/4'
value.

Now, admittedly the OVERCOMMIT_GUESS case is the interesting one, and
the one that is hard to write efficiently. But maybe we could make
'nr_free_pages()' cheap enough that doin that whole OVERCOMMIT_GUESS
"approximate free pages" thing from __vm_enough_memory would work out
too?

I dunno. It doesn't look hopeless.

Linus


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