Re: [PATCH] Increase default MLOCK_LIMIT to 8 MiB

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-24T15:34:12Z

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 03:14:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:

> I'm not aware of any where you can fragment 50% of all pageblocks in the
> system as an unprivileged user essentially consuming almost no memory
> and essentially staying inside well-defined memlock limits. But sure if
> there are "many" people will be able to come up with at least one
> comparable thing. I'll be happy to learn.

If the concern is that THP's can be DOS'd then any avenue that renders
the system out of THPs is a DOS attack vector. Including all the
normal workloads that people run and already complain that THPs get
exhausted.

A hostile userspace can only quicken this process.

> My position that FOLL_LONGTERM for unprivileged users is a strong no-go
> stands as it is.

As this basically excludes long standing pre-existing things like
RDMA, XDP, io_uring, and more I don't think this can be the general
answer for mm, sorry.

Sure, lets stop now since I don't think we can agree.

Jason