[PATCH v5 11/11] tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count

Beau Belgrave
2022-12-05T21:01:22Z

Operators want to be able to ensure enough tracepoints exist on the
system for kernel components as well as for user components. Since there
are only up to 64K events, by default allow up to half to be used by
user events.

Add a boot parameter (user_events_max=%d) and a kernel sysctl parameter
(kernel.user_events_max) to set a global limit that is honored among all
groups on the system. This ensures hard limits can be setup to prevent
user processes from consuming all event IDs on the system.

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
index 36def244a755..754942ba92a1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/user_events.h>
#include "trace.h"
#include "trace_dynevent.h"
@@ -61,6 +62,12 @@ struct user_event_group {
/* Group for init_user_ns mapping, top-most group */
static struct user_event_group *init_group;

+/* Max allowed events for the whole system */
+static unsigned int max_user_events = 32768;
+
+/* Current number of events on the whole system */
+static unsigned int current_user_events;
+
/*
* Stores per-event properties, as users register events
* within a file a user_event might be created if it does not
@@ -1247,6 +1254,11 @@ static int destroy_user_event(struct user_event *user)
kfree(EVENT_NAME(user));
kfree(user);

+ if (current_user_events > 0)
+ current_user_events--;
+ else
+ pr_alert("BUG: Bad current_user_events\n");
+
return ret;
}

@@ -1732,6 +1744,11 @@ static int user_event_parse(struct user_event_group *group, char *name,

mutex_lock(&event_mutex);

+ if (current_user_events >= max_user_events) {
+ ret = -EMFILE;
+ goto put_user_lock;
+ }
+
ret = user_event_trace_register(user);

if (ret)
@@ -1743,6 +1760,7 @@ static int user_event_parse(struct user_event_group *group, char *name,
dyn_event_init(&user->devent, &user_event_dops);
dyn_event_add(&user->devent, &user->call);
hash_add(group->register_table, &user->node, key);
+ current_user_events++;

mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);

@@ -2369,6 +2387,43 @@ static int create_user_tracefs(void)
return -ENODEV;
}

+static int __init set_max_user_events(char *str)
+{
+ if (!str)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (kstrtouint(str, 0, &max_user_events))
+ return 0;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("user_events_max=", set_max_user_events);
+
+static int set_max_user_events_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
+
+ ret = proc_douintvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static struct ctl_table user_event_sysctls[] = {
+ {
+ .procname = "user_events_max",
+ .data = &max_user_events,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = set_max_user_events_sysctl,
+ },
+ {}
+};
+
static int __init trace_events_user_init(void)
{
int ret;
@@ -2398,6 +2453,8 @@ static int __init trace_events_user_init(void)
if (dyn_event_register(&user_event_dops))
pr_warn("user_events could not register with dyn_events\n");

+ register_sysctl_init("kernel", user_event_sysctls);
+
return 0;
}

--
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