From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg The cred_jar kmem_cache is already memcg accounted in the current kernel but cred->security is not. Account cred->security to kmemcg. Recently we saw high root slab usage on our production and on further inspection, we found a buggy application leaking processes. Though that buggy application was contained within its memcg but we observe much more system memory overhead, couple of GiBs, during that period. This overhead can adversely impact the isolation on the system. One of source of high overhead, we found was cred->secuity objects, which have a lifetime of at least the life of the process which allocated them. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191205223721.40034-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cred.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/cred.c~memcg-account-security-cred-as-well-to-kmemcg +++ a/kernel/cred.c @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void) new->magic = CRED_MAGIC; #endif - if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL) < 0) + if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0) goto error; return new; @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void) new->security = NULL; #endif - if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0) + if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0) goto error; validate_creds(new); return new; @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY new->security = NULL; #endif - if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0) + if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0) goto error; put_cred(old); _
