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ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation

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Patch series "ipc: allocations cleanup", v2.

Some ipc objects use the wrong allocation functions: small objects can use
kmalloc(), and vice versa, potentially large objects can use kmalloc().

This patch (of 2):

Size of sem_undo can exceed one page and with the maximum possible nsems =
32000 it can grow up to 64Kb.  Let's switch its allocation to kvmalloc to
avoid user-triggered disruptive actions like OOM killer in case of
high-order memory shortage.

User triggerable high order allocations are quite a problem on heavily
fragmented systems.  They can be a DoS vector.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ebc3ac79-3190-520d-81ce-22ad194986ec@virtuozzo.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a6354fd9-2d55-2e63-dd4d-fa7dc1d11134@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vasily Averin 2021-06-30 18:57:09 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3b52348345
commit fc37a3b8b4
1 changed files with 6 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ static void freeary(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp)
un->semid = -1;
list_del_rcu(&un->list_proc);
spin_unlock(&un->ulp->lock);
kfree_rcu(un, rcu);
kvfree_rcu(un, rcu);
}
/* Wake up all pending processes and let them fail with EIDRM. */
@ -1937,7 +1937,8 @@ static struct sem_undo *find_alloc_undo(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int semid)
rcu_read_unlock();
/* step 2: allocate new undo structure */
new = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sem_undo) + sizeof(short)*nsems, GFP_KERNEL);
new = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct sem_undo) + sizeof(short)*nsems,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new) {
ipc_rcu_putref(&sma->sem_perm, sem_rcu_free);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@ -1949,7 +1950,7 @@ static struct sem_undo *find_alloc_undo(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int semid)
if (!ipc_valid_object(&sma->sem_perm)) {
sem_unlock(sma, -1);
rcu_read_unlock();
kfree(new);
kvfree(new);
un = ERR_PTR(-EIDRM);
goto out;
}
@ -1960,7 +1961,7 @@ static struct sem_undo *find_alloc_undo(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int semid)
*/
un = lookup_undo(ulp, semid);
if (un) {
kfree(new);
kvfree(new);
goto success;
}
/* step 5: initialize & link new undo structure */
@ -2420,7 +2421,7 @@ void exit_sem(struct task_struct *tsk)
rcu_read_unlock();
wake_up_q(&wake_q);
kfree_rcu(un, rcu);
kvfree_rcu(un, rcu);
}
kfree(ulp);
}