[patch 28/43] epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches

Greg KH
2009-01-31T03:09:16Z

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2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>

commit 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b upstream.

Linus suggested to put limits where the money is, and max_user_watches
already does that w/out the need of max_user_instances. That has the
advantage to mitigate the potential DoS while allowing pretty generous
default behavior.

Allowing top 4% of low memory (per user) to be allocated in epoll watches,
we have:

LOMEM MAX_WATCHES (per user)
512MB ~178000
1GB ~356000
2GB ~712000

A box with 512MB of lomem, will meet some challenge in hitting 180K
watches, socket buffers math teaches us. No more max_user_instances
limits then.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
fs/eventpoll.c | 22 ++++------------------
include/linux/sched.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -234,8 +234,6 @@ struct ep_pqueue {
/*
* Configuration options available inside /proc/sys/fs/epoll/
*/
-/* Maximum number of epoll devices, per user */
-static int max_user_instances __read_mostly;
/* Maximum number of epoll watched descriptors, per user */
static int max_user_watches __read_mostly;

@@ -261,14 +259,6 @@ static int zero;

ctl_table epoll_table[] = {
{
- .procname = "max_user_instances",
- .data = &max_user_instances,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &zero,
- },
- {
.procname = "max_user_watches",
.data = &max_user_watches,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
@@ -491,7 +481,6 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep

mutex_unlock(&epmutex);
mutex_destroy(&ep->mtx);
- atomic_dec(&ep->user->epoll_devs);
free_uid(ep->user);
kfree(ep);
}
@@ -581,10 +570,6 @@ static int ep_alloc(struct eventpoll **p
struct eventpoll *ep;

user = get_current_user();
- error = -EMFILE;
- if (unlikely(atomic_read(&user->epoll_devs) >=
- max_user_instances))
- goto free_uid;
error = -ENOMEM;
ep = kzalloc(sizeof(*ep), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!ep))
@@ -1141,7 +1126,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(epoll_create1, int, flag
flags & O_CLOEXEC);
if (fd < 0)
ep_free(ep);
- atomic_inc(&ep->user->epoll_devs);

error_return:
DNPRINTK(3, (KERN_INFO "[%p] eventpoll: sys_epoll_create(%d) = %d\n",
@@ -1366,8 +1350,10 @@ static int __init eventpoll_init(void)
struct sysinfo si;

si_meminfo(&si);
- max_user_instances = 128;
- max_user_watches = (((si.totalram - si.totalhigh) / 32) << PAGE_SHIFT) /
+ /*
+ * Allows top 4% of lomem to be allocated for epoll watches (per user).
+ */
+ max_user_watches = (((si.totalram - si.totalhigh) / 25) << PAGE_SHIFT) /
EP_ITEM_COST;

/* Initialize the structure used to perform safe poll wait head wake ups */
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -631,7 +631,6 @@ struct user_struct {
atomic_t inotify_devs; /* How many inotify devs does this user have opened? */
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
- atomic_t epoll_devs; /* The number of epoll descriptors currently open */
atomic_t epoll_watches; /* The number of file descriptors currently watched */
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE