From 7ef9964e6d1b911b78709f144000aacadd0ebc21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davide Libenzi Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:13:55 -0800 Subject: epoll: introduce resource usage limits It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Reported-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 9d048fa2d90..3d56fe7570d 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ extern struct ctl_table random_table[]; #ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER extern struct ctl_table inotify_table[]; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL +extern struct ctl_table epoll_table[]; +#endif #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT int sysctl_legacy_va_layout; @@ -1325,6 +1328,13 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { .child = inotify_table, }, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL + { + .procname = "epoll", + .mode = 0555, + .child = epoll_table, + }, +#endif #endif { .ctl_name = KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE, -- cgit v1.2.3