[PATCH] cgroup: Add pids controller event when fork fails because of pid limit

[Kenny Yu]

Summary:
This patch adds more visibility into the pids controller when the controller
rejects a fork request. Whenever fork fails because the limit on the number of
pids in the cgroup is reached, the controller will log this and also notify the
newly added cgroups events file. The `max` key in the events file represents
the number of times fork failed because of the pids controller.

This change also adds an atomic boolean to prevent logging too much (e.g. a fork
bomb). The message is logged once per cgroup until the next time the pids limit
changes.

Signed-off-by: Kenny Yu <kennyyu@xxxxxx>
---
 kernel/cgroup_pids.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_pids.c b/kernel/cgroup_pids.c
index b93cbe3..8ba8c8f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup_pids.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup_pids.c
@@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ struct pids_cgroup {
 	 */
 	atomic64_t			counter;
 	int64_t				limit;
+
+	/* Handle for "pids.events" */
+	struct cgroup_file		events_file;
+
+	/* Number of times fork failed because limit was hit. */
+	atomic64_t			events_limit;
+
+	/*
+	 * To avoid logging too much (e.g. during a fork bomb), log only once
+	 * per cgroup and reset this when the limit changes.
+	 */
+	atomic_t			events_limit_logged;
 };
 
 static struct pids_cgroup *css_pids(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
@@ -72,6 +84,8 @@ pids_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent)
 
 	pids->limit = PIDS_MAX;
 	atomic64_set(&pids->counter, 0);
+	atomic64_set(&pids->events_limit, 0);
+	atomic_set(&pids->events_limit_logged, 0);
 	return &pids->css;
 }
 
@@ -205,6 +219,17 @@ static void pids_cancel_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 	}
 }
 
+static void pids_fork_failed_event(struct pids_cgroup *pids)
+{
+	atomic64_inc(&pids->events_limit);
+	cgroup_file_notify(&pids->events_file);
+	if (!atomic_xchg(&pids->events_limit_logged, 1)) {
+		pr_info("cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in ");
+		pr_cont_cgroup_path(task_cgroup(current, pids_cgrp_id));
+		pr_cont("\n");
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * task_css_check(true) in pids_can_fork() and pids_cancel_fork() relies
  * on threadgroup_change_begin() held by the copy_process().
@@ -213,10 +238,14 @@ static int pids_can_fork(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
 	struct pids_cgroup *pids;
+	int err;
 
 	css = task_css_check(current, pids_cgrp_id, true);
 	pids = css_pids(css);
-	return pids_try_charge(pids, 1);
+	err = pids_try_charge(pids, 1);
+	if (err)
+		pids_fork_failed_event(pids);
+	return err;
 }
 
 static void pids_cancel_fork(struct task_struct *task)
@@ -263,6 +292,7 @@ set_limit:
 	 * critical that any racing fork()s follow the new limit.
 	 */
 	pids->limit = limit;
+	atomic_set(&pids->events_limit_logged, 0);
 	return nbytes;
 }
 
@@ -288,6 +318,14 @@ static s64 pids_current_read(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 	return atomic64_read(&pids->counter);
 }
 
+static int pids_events_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
+{
+	struct pids_cgroup *pids = css_pids(seq_css(sf));
+
+	seq_printf(sf, "max %ld\n", atomic64_read(&pids->events_limit));
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct cftype pids_files[] = {
 	{
 		.name = "max",
@@ -299,6 +337,12 @@ static struct cftype pids_files[] = {
 		.name = "current",
 		.read_s64 = pids_current_read,
 	},
+	{
+		.name = "events",
+		.seq_show = pids_events_show,
+		.file_offset = offsetof(struct pids_cgroup, events_file),
+		.flags = CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT,
+	},
 	{ }	/* terminate */
 };
 
-- 
2.8.0.rc2