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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 09/10] memcg: enable accounting for tty-related objects
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:09:09 +0200
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To: Vasily Averin <vvs-5HdwGun5lf+gSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:34:14AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> At each login the user forces the kernel to create a new terminal and
> allocate up to ~1Kb memory for the tty-related structures.
> 
> By default it's allowed to create up to 4096 ptys with 1024 reserve for
> initial mount namespace only and the settings are controlled by host admin.
> 
> Though this default is not enough for hosters with thousands
> of containers per node. Host admin can be forced to increase it
> up to NR_UNIX98_PTY_MAX = 1<<20.
> 
> By default container is restricted by pty mount_opt.max = 1024,
> but admin inside container can change it via remount. As a result,
> one container can consume almost all allowed ptys
> and allocate up to 1Gb of unaccounted memory.
> 
> It is not enough per-se to trigger OOM on host, however anyway, it allows
> to significantly exceed the assigned memcg limit and leads to troubles
> on the over-committed node.
> 
> It makes sense to account for them to restrict the host's memory
> consumption from inside the memcg-limited container.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs-5HdwGun5lf+gSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

As this is independant of all of the rest, I'll just take this through
my tree now so that you do not have to keep resending it.

thanks,

greg k-h