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Roman Gushchin 5de69d648a mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as free in overcommit logic 
commit d79f7aa496 upstream.

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 attack 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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2018-10-18 09:16:25 +02:00
Documentation ARM: dts: at91: add new compatibility string for macb on sama5d3 2018-10-18 09:16:22 +02:00
arch mm: Preserve _PAGE_DEVMAP across mprotect() calls 2018-10-18 09:16:25 +02:00
block blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace 2018-10-13 09:27:22 +02:00
certs Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-09-09 19:55:54 +02:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings 2018-10-03 17:00:45 -07:00
drivers xhci: Don't print a warning when setting link state for disabled ports 2018-10-18 09:16:25 +02:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory 2018-10-18 09:16:25 +02:00
include mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES 2018-10-18 09:16:25 +02:00
init init: rename and re-order boot_cpu_state_init() 2018-08-15 18:12:48 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: prevent queue.status tearing in semop 2018-09-05 09:26:30 +02:00
kernel cgroup: Fix dom_cgrp propagation when enabling threaded mode 2018-10-18 09:16:24 +02:00
lib scsi: klist: Make it safe to use klists in atomic context 2018-10-03 17:00:48 -07:00
mm mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as free in overcommit logic 2018-10-18 09:16:25 +02:00
net inet: make sure to grab rcu_read_lock before using ireq->ireq_opt 2018-10-18 09:16:21 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Check the error of write() and read() 2018-08-24 13:09:12 +02:00
scripts kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target 2018-09-26 08:37:59 +02:00
security Revert "uapi/linux/keyctl.h: don't use C++ reserved keyword as a struct member name" 2018-09-29 03:06:04 -07:00
sound sound: don't call skl_init_chip() to reset intel skl soc 2018-10-18 09:16:22 +02:00
tools perf script python: Fix export-to-sqlite.py sample columns 2018-10-18 09:16:23 +02:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix vgic init race 2018-09-26 08:38:04 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.76 2018-10-13 09:27:30 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.