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authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>2020-01-04 23:59:43 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-05 00:55:09 +0300
commit84029fd04c201a4c7e0b07ba262664900f47c6f5 (patch)
treed88e89b94aef52ad6096b615f63d14cffbabc151 /kernel
parenta69b83e1ae7f6c5ff2cc310870c1708405d86be2 (diff)
downloadlinux-84029fd04c201a4c7e0b07ba262664900f47c6f5.tar.xz
memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg
The cred_jar kmem_cache is already memcg accounted in the current kernel but cred->security is not. Account cred->security to kmemcg. Recently we saw high root slab usage on our production and on further inspection, we found a buggy application leaking processes. Though that buggy application was contained within its memcg but we observe much more system memory overhead, couple of GiBs, during that period. This overhead can adversely impact the isolation on the system. One source of high overhead we found was cred->security objects, which have a lifetime of at least the life of the process which allocated them. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191205223721.40034-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cred.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index c0a4c12d38b2..9ed51b70ed80 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void)
new->magic = CRED_MAGIC;
#endif
- if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
+ if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
goto error;
return new;
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void)
new->security = NULL;
#endif
- if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
+ if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
goto error;
validate_creds(new);
return new;
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
new->security = NULL;
#endif
- if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
+ if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
goto error;
put_cred(old);