Re: [PATCH] mm/mlock: fix potential imbalanced rlimit ucounts adjustment

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Sun Mar 13 2022 - 23:49:56 EST


On 2022/3/14 11:11, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> On 2022/3/14 10:40, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>> user_shm_lock forgets to set allowed to 0 when get_ucounts fails. So
>>>> the later user_shm_unlock might do the extra dec_rlimit_ucounts. Fix
>>>> this by resetting allowed to 0.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 5ed44a401ddf ("do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> NAK. user_shm_lock() remembers to declare "int allowed = 0" on entry.
>>>
>>
>> If lock_limit is RLIM_INFINITY, "allowed" will be set to 1. And if get_ucounts fails
>> in some corner cases, "allowed" will remain to be 1 while the user_shm_lock ops indeed
>> fails. Or am I miss something?
>
> You are right, I am wrong: sorry.
> Thanks for pointing now to that RLIM_INFINITY case.
>
> But then the Fixes tag is wrong: it should be
> Fixes: d7c9e99aee48 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts")
> which introduced the possibility of error down there.
>

You're right. commit 5ed44a401ddf ("do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY")
introduced RLIM_INFINITY and set "allowed" to 1 but there is no possibility of error down there.
Will change this in V2.

> With that,
> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Many thanks!

>
>>
>> Many thanks for comment.
>>
>>>> ---
>>>> mm/mlock.c | 1 +
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
>>>> index 29372c0eebe5..efd2dd2943de 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/mlock.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/mlock.c
>>>> @@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ int user_shm_lock(size_t size, struct ucounts *ucounts)
>>>> }
>>>> if (!get_ucounts(ucounts)) {
>>>> dec_rlimit_ucounts(ucounts, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, locked);
>>>> + allowed = 0;
>>>> goto out;
>>>> }
>>>> allowed = 1;
>>>> --
>>>> 2.23.0
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