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SubjectRe: [patch] mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes
On Wed 07-03-18 15:52:15, David Rientjes wrote:
> Since the 2.6 kernel, the oom killer has slightly biased away from
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes by discounting some of its memory usage in
> comparison to other processes.
>
> This has always been implicit and nothing exactly relies on the behavior.
>
> Gaurav notices that __task_cred() can dereference a potentially freed
> pointer if the task under consideration is exiting because a reference to
> the task_struct is not held.
>
> Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN bias so that all processes are treated equally.
>
> If any CAP_SYS_ADMIN process would like to be biased against, it is always
> allowed to adjust /proc/pid/oom_score_adj.
>
> Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

This is simpler than playing reference counting tricks and whatnot.
Moreover I do agree that this heuristic is questionable on its own. The
bias is basically random and invisible to the userspace. We already have
a way to tune the same thing by oom_score_adj

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> ---
> mm/oom_kill.c | 7 -------
> 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -224,13 +224,6 @@ unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> mm_pgtables_bytes(p->mm) / PAGE_SIZE;
> task_unlock(p);
>
> - /*
> - * Root processes get 3% bonus, just like the __vm_enough_memory()
> - * implementation used by LSMs.
> - */
> - if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> - points -= (points * 3) / 100;
> -
> /* Normalize to oom_score_adj units */
> adj *= totalpages / 1000;
> points += adj;

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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