From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, rientjes@google.com, oleg@redhat.com,
vdavydov@parallels.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm, oom: skip vforked tasks from being selected
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 16:25:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160601142502.GY26601@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201606012312.BIF26006.MLtFVQSJOHOFOF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Wed 01-06-16 23:12:20, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > vforked tasks are not really sitting on any memory. They are sharing
> > the mm with parent until they exec into a new code. Until then it is
> > just pinning the address space. OOM killer will kill the vforked task
> > along with its parent but we still can end up selecting vforked task
> > when the parent wouldn't be selected. E.g. init doing vfork to launch
> > a task or vforked being a child of oom unkillable task with an updated
> > oom_score_adj to be killable.
> >
> > Make sure to not select vforked task as an oom victim by checking
> > vfork_done in oom_badness.
>
> While vfork()ed task cannot modify userspace memory, can't such task
> allocate significant amount of kernel memory inside execve() operation
> (as demonstrated by CVE-2010-4243 64bit_dos.c )?
>
> It is possible that killing vfork()ed task releases a lot of memory,
> isn't it?
I am not familiar with the above CVE but doesn't that allocated memory
come after flush_old_exec (and so mm_release)?
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Michal Hocko
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-30 13:05 [PATCH 0/6 -v2] Handle oom bypass more gracefully Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 13:05 ` [PATCH 1/6] proc, oom: drop bogus task_lock and mm check Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 13:49 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-05-30 17:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-05-31 7:32 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 22:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-01 6:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-01 10:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-01 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 13:05 ` [PATCH 2/6] proc, oom_adj: extract oom_score_adj setting into a helper Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 13:05 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 7:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 13:05 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm, oom: skip vforked tasks from being selected Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 19:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-05-31 7:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 21:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-01 7:09 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-01 14:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-01 14:25 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-06-02 10:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-02 11:20 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-02 11:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-02 12:55 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 13:05 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm, oom: kill all tasks sharing the mm Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 18:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-05-31 7:43 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 21:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-05-30 13:05 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm, oom: fortify task_will_free_mem Michal Hocko
2016-05-30 17:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-05-31 7:46 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 22:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-01 7:03 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 15:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-31 15:10 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-31 15:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-01 7:25 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-01 12:04 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-01 12:43 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-02 14:03 ` [PATCH 7/6] mm, oom: task_will_free_mem should skip oom_reaped tasks Michal Hocko
2016-06-02 15:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-06-02 15:50 ` Michal Hocko
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