CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: r...@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/10/15 04:35:41
Modified files:
usr.sbin/vmd : config.c vmd.c vmd.h
Log message:
Prevent VM reboot loops by rate-limiting the interval a VM can reboot.
This looping has been experienced by people who run VMs with a broken
kernel or boot loader that trigger a very fast reboot loop (triple
fault) of a VM that ends up using a lot of CPU and resources on the
host. Some fixes in vmm(4) and vmd(8) helped to avoid such conditions
but it can still occur if something is wrong in the guest VM itself.
If the VM restarts after less than VM_START_RATE_SEC (6) seconds, we
increment the limit counter. After VM_START_RATE_LIMIT (3) of suchs
fast reboots the VM is stopped.
There are only very few people who intentionally want to reboot-loop a
VM very quickly (many times within a second); mostly for fuzzing.
They will have to recompile and adjust the stated #defines in the code
as we don't have a config option to disable it.
OK mlarkin@
