This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
taskstats: don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
taskstats-don-t-allow-duplicate-entries-in-listener-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 26c4caea9d697043cc5a458b96411b86d7f6babd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:18:11 -0700
Subject: taskstats: don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
commit 26c4caea9d697043cc5a458b96411b86d7f6babd upstream.
Currently a single process may register exit handlers unlimited times.
It may lead to a bloated listeners chain and very slow process
terminations.
Eg after 10KK sent TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER_CPUMASKs ~300 Mb of
kernel memory is stolen for the handlers chain and "time id" shows 2-7
seconds instead of normal 0.003. It makes it possible to exhaust all
kernel memory and to eat much of CPU time by triggerring numerous exits
on a single CPU.
The patch limits the number of times a single process may register
itself on a single CPU to one.
One little issue is kept unfixed - as taskstats_exit() is called before
exit_files() in do_exit(), the orphaned listener entry (if it was not
explicitly deregistered) is kept until the next someone's exit() and
implicit deregistration in send_cpu_listeners(). So, if a process
registered itself as a listener exits and the next spawned process gets
the same pid, it would inherit taskstats attributes.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/taskstats.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -285,16 +285,18 @@ ret:
static int add_del_listener(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *mask, int isadd)
{
struct listener_list *listeners;
- struct listener *s, *tmp;
+ struct listener *s, *tmp, *s2;
unsigned int cpu;
if (!cpumask_subset(mask, cpu_possible_mask))
return -EINVAL;
+ s = NULL;
if (isadd == REGISTER) {
for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
- s = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct listener), GFP_KERNEL,
- cpu_to_node(cpu));
+ if (!s)
+ s = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct listener),
+ GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!s)
goto cleanup;
s->pid = pid;
@@ -303,9 +305,16 @@ static int add_del_listener(pid_t pid, c
listeners = &per_cpu(listener_array, cpu);
down_write(&listeners->sem);
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(s2, tmp, &listeners->list,
list) {
+ if (s2->pid == pid)
+ goto next_cpu;
+ }
list_add(&s->list, &listeners->list);
+ s = NULL;
+next_cpu:
up_write(&listeners->sem);
}
+ kfree(s);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.39/taskstats-don-t-allow-duplicate-entries-in-listener-mode.patch
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