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author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-09-24 02:56:56 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 18:21:00 +0400 |
commit | a293980c2e261bd5b0d2a77340dd04f684caff58 (patch) | |
tree | 69f2b2747548deafb146c18953ebce21ae1f02d4 /fs | |
parent | 725eae32df7754044809973034429a47e6035158 (diff) | |
download | linux-a293980c2e261bd5b0d2a77340dd04f684caff58.tar.xz |
exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl.
Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem,
we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the
system simply by running bad applications.
If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can
have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system.
This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption.
core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel,
dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log.
A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may
be handled (this is the default value).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 735d9c18ec71..dc022dd15d51 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ int core_uses_pid; char core_pattern[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE] = "core"; +unsigned int core_pipe_limit; int suid_dumpable = 0; /* The maximal length of core_pattern is also specified in sysctl.c */ @@ -1744,7 +1745,8 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs) unsigned long core_limit = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE].rlim_cur; char **helper_argv = NULL; int helper_argc = 0; - char *delimit; + int dump_count = 0; + static atomic_t core_dump_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0); audit_core_dumps(signr); @@ -1826,28 +1828,36 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs) goto fail_unlock; } + dump_count = atomic_inc_return(&core_dump_count); + if (core_pipe_limit && (core_pipe_limit < dump_count)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "Pid %d(%s) over core_pipe_limit\n", + task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm); + printk(KERN_WARNING "Skipping core dump\n"); + goto fail_dropcount; + } + helper_argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, corename+1, &helper_argc); if (!helper_argv) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s failed to allocate memory\n", __func__); - goto fail_unlock; + goto fail_dropcount; } core_limit = RLIM_INFINITY; /* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */ - if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(corename+1, helper_argv, NULL, + if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL, &file)) { printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n", corename); - goto fail_unlock; + goto fail_dropcount; } } else file = filp_open(corename, O_CREAT | 2 | O_NOFOLLOW | O_LARGEFILE | flag, 0600); if (IS_ERR(file)) - goto fail_unlock; + goto fail_dropcount; inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; if (inode->i_nlink > 1) goto close_fail; /* multiple links - don't dump */ @@ -1877,6 +1887,9 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs) current->signal->group_exit_code |= 0x80; close_fail: filp_close(file, NULL); +fail_dropcount: + if (dump_count) + atomic_dec(&core_dump_count); fail_unlock: if (helper_argv) argv_free(helper_argv); |