Re: [PATCH 1/3] extend get/setrlimit to support setting rlimitsexternal to a process (v4)

From: Neil Horman
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 22:01:25 EST


On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:32:03PM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> I found some new issues in this patch, sorry ;).
>
> Neil Horman wrote:
> > (...)
> > diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> > index 6f742f6..631f01b 100644
> > --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> > @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
> >
> > #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> >
> > +#include <linux/string.h>
> > +#include <linux/ctype.h>
> > #include <linux/errno.h>
> > #include <linux/time.h>
> > #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
> > @@ -455,72 +457,193 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer)
> > struct limit_names {
> > char *name;
> > char *unit;
> > + char *match;
> > };
> >
> > static const struct limit_names lnames[RLIM_NLIMITS] = {
> > - [RLIMIT_CPU] = {"Max cpu time", "ms"},
> > - [RLIMIT_FSIZE] = {"Max file size", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_DATA] = {"Max data size", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_STACK] = {"Max stack size", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_CORE] = {"Max core file size", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_RSS] = {"Max resident set", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_NPROC] = {"Max processes", "processes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_NOFILE] = {"Max open files", "files"},
> > - [RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] = {"Max locked memory", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_AS] = {"Max address space", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_LOCKS] = {"Max file locks", "locks"},
> > - [RLIMIT_SIGPENDING] = {"Max pending signals", "signals"},
> > - [RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE] = {"Max msgqueue size", "bytes"},
> > - [RLIMIT_NICE] = {"Max nice priority", NULL},
> > - [RLIMIT_RTPRIO] = {"Max realtime priority", NULL},
> > - [RLIMIT_RTTIME] = {"Max realtime timeout", "us"},
> > + [RLIMIT_CPU] = {"Max cpu time", "ms", "cpu"},
> > + [RLIMIT_FSIZE] = {"Max file size", "bytes", "fsize"},
> > + [RLIMIT_DATA] = {"Max data size", "bytes", "data"},
> > + [RLIMIT_STACK] = {"Max stack size", "bytes", "stack"},
> > + [RLIMIT_CORE] = {"Max core file size", "bytes", "core"},
> > + [RLIMIT_RSS] = {"Max resident set", "bytes", "rss"},
> > + [RLIMIT_NPROC] = {"Max processes", "processes", "nproc"},
> > + [RLIMIT_NOFILE] = {"Max open files", "files", "nofile"},
> > + [RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] = {"Max locked memory", "bytes", "memlock"},
> > + [RLIMIT_AS] = {"Max address space", "bytes", "as"},
> > + [RLIMIT_LOCKS] = {"Max file locks", "locks", "locks"},
> > + [RLIMIT_SIGPENDING] = {"Max pending signals", "signals", "sigpending"},
> > + [RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE] = {"Max msgqueue size", "bytes", "msgqueue"},
> > + [RLIMIT_NICE] = {"Max nice priority", NULL, "nice"},
> > + [RLIMIT_RTPRIO] = {"Max realtime priority", NULL, "rtprio"},
> > + [RLIMIT_RTTIME] = {"Max realtime timeout", "us", "rttime"},
> > };
>
> There's no way user can figure out what's the "match" for every limit.
> Maybe you could print it after "limit name"?
>
I was figuring we could just document the names, but sure, thats fine. I'll
likely do a format in which I do "Limit Name(id)" to display the name and id.

> > + bufptr = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> I think you could derive size of allocation from RLIM_NLIMITS.
> If I'm reading correctly it will be something like (RLIM_NLIMITS + 1) * 80.
>
meh, ok. It should be more like *90 if I add the id, but we can do that.

> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < strlen(element); i++)
> > + element[i] = tolower(element[i]);
>
> I don't think we should fix user mistakes like this...
>
I guess not, if we display the id's

> > +
> > + if (!strncmp(vmc, "unlimited", 9))
> > + new_rlim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
> > + else
> > + new_rlim.rlim_cur = simple_strtoull(vmc, NULL, 10);
>
> rlim_cur and rlim_max are unsigned long so you should use simple_strtoul
>
Ok

> > +
> > + if (!strncmp(vmm, "unlimited", 9))
> > + new_rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
> > + else
> > + new_rlim.rlim_max = simple_strtoull(vmm, NULL, 10);
> > +
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < RLIM_NLIMITS; i++) {
> > + if ((lnames[i].match) &&
>
> match is always not null, you can drop this check
>
Ok.

fine, one more version. It'll take me a few days to test, the system I
developed this on is otherwise occupied at the moment.

Neil

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