Re: [PATCH v2] mm, oom: Tolerate processes sharing mm with different view of oom_score_adj.

[Tetsuo Handa]

On 2019/01/31 16:11, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 31-01-19 07:49:35, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>> This patch reverts both commit 44a70adec910d692 ("mm, oom_adj: make sure
>> processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj") and commit
>> 97fd49c2355ffded ("mm, oom: kill all tasks sharing the mm") in order to
>> close a race and reduce the latency at __set_oom_adj(), and reduces the
>> warning at __oom_kill_process() in order to minimize the latency.
>>
>> Commit 36324a990cf578b5 ("oom: clear TIF_MEMDIE after oom_reaper managed
>> to unmap the address space") introduced the worst case mentioned in
>> 44a70adec910d692. But since the OOM killer skips mm with MMF_OOM_SKIP set,
>> only administrators can trigger the worst case.
>>
>> Since 44a70adec910d692 did not take latency into account, we can "hold RCU
>> for minutes and trigger RCU stall warnings" by calling printk() on many
>> thousands of thread groups. Also, current code becomes a DoS attack vector
>> which will allow "stalling for more than one month in unkillable state"
>> simply printk()ing same messages when many thousands of thread groups
>> tried to iterate __set_oom_adj() on each other.
>>
>> I also noticed that 44a70adec910d692 is racy [1], and trying to fix the
>> race will require a global lock which is too costly for rare events. And
>> Michal Hocko is thinking to change the oom_score_adj implementation to per
>> mm_struct (with shadowed score stored in per task_struct in order to
>> support vfork() => __set_oom_adj() => execve() sequence) so that we don't
>> need the global lock.
>>
>> If the worst case in 44a70adec910d692 happened, it is an administrator's
>> request. Therefore, before changing the oom_score_adj implementation,
>> let's eliminate the DoS attack vector first.
> 
> This is really ridiculous. I have already nacked the previous version
> and provided two ways around. The simplest one is to drop the printk.
> The second one is to move oom_score_adj to the mm struct. Could you
> explain why do you still push for this?

Dropping printk() does not close the race.
You must propose an alternative patch if you dislike this patch.

> 
>> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008011931epcms1p82dd01b7e5c067ea99946418bc97de46a@epcms1p8
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Nacked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/proc/base.c     | 46 ----------------------------------------------
>>  include/linux/mm.h |  2 --
>>  mm/oom_kill.c      | 10 ++++++----
>>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>>