From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 536BA6B0047 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:46:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 21:46:13 +0100 From: Frantisek Hrbata Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness Message-ID: <20111202204613.GA2297@dhcp-26-164.brq.redhat.com> Reply-To: Frantisek Hrbata References: <1320048865-13175-1-git-send-email-fhrbata@redhat.com> <20111202174526.GA11483@dhcp-26-164.brq.redhat.com> <20111202190019.GA13283@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111202190019.GA13283@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: rientjes@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, oleg@redhat.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, stable@kernel.org, eteo@redhat.com, pmatouse@redhat.com On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:00:19AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 06:45:27PM +0100, Frantisek Hrbata wrote: > > An integer overflow will happen on 64bit archs if task's sum of rss, swapents > > and nr_ptes exceeds (2^31)/1000 value. This was introduced by commit > > > > f755a04 oom: use pte pages in OOM score > > > > where the oom score computation was divided into several steps and it's no > > longer computed as one expression in unsigned long(rss, swapents, nr_pte are > > unsigned long), where the result value assigned to points(int) is in > > range(1..1000). So there could be an int overflow while computing > > > > 176 points *= 1000; > > > > and points may have negative value. Meaning the oom score for a mem hog task > > will be one. > > > > 196 if (points <= 0) > > 197 return 1; > > > > For example: > > [ 3366] 0 3366 35390480 24303939 5 0 0 oom01 > > Out of memory: Kill process 3366 (oom01) score 1 or sacrifice child > > > > Here the oom1 process consumes more than 24303939(rss)*4096~=92GB physical > > memory, but it's oom score is one. > > > > In this situation the mem hog task is skipped and oom killer kills another and > > most probably innocent task with oom score greater than one. > > > > The points variable should be of type long instead of int to prevent the int > > overflow. > > > > Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata > > Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > > Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov > > Acked-by: David Rientjes > > Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.36+] > > For what it's worth, the stable address has changed to > stable@vger.kernel.org so you might want to fix that up in future > submissions. I was not aware of this change. > > I still catch patches that are tagged with this marking, but you will > not end up posting stuff to the list this way :) Duly noted :) > > thanks, Thanks Greg! > > greg k-h -- Frantisek Hrbata -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org