mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as free in overcommit logic
Indirectly reclaimable memory can consume a significant part of total memory and it's actually reclaimable (it will be released under actual memory pressure). So, the overcommit logic should treat it as free. Otherwise, it's possible to cause random system-wide memory allocation failures by consuming a significant amount of memory by indirectly reclaimable memory, e.g. dentry external names. If overcommit policy GUESS is used, it might be used for denial of service under some conditions. The following program illustrates the approach. It causes the kernel to allocate an unreclaimable kmalloc-256 chunk for each stat() call, so that at some point the overcommit logic may start blocking large allocation system-wide. int main() { char buf[256]; unsigned long i; struct stat statbuf; buf[0] = '/'; for (i = 1; i < sizeof(buf); i++) buf[i] = '_'; for (i = 0; 1; i++) { sprintf(&buf[248], "%8lu", i); stat(buf, &statbuf); } return 0; } This patch in combination with related indirectly reclaimable memory patches closes this issue. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313130041.8078-1-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by:Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reviewed-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Git-Commit: d79f7aa496fc94d763f67b833a1f36f4c171176f Git-Repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git Change-Id: I6daf49a77a687446135c5d21828932e28a79fc19 Signed-off-by:
Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
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