This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
memcg: enable accounting for pids in nested pid namespaces
to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
memcg-enable-accounting-for-pids-in-nested-pid-namespaces.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From fab827dbee8c2e06ca4ba000fa6c48bcf9054aba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:54:57 -0700
Subject: memcg: enable accounting for pids in nested pid namespaces
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From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit fab827dbee8c2e06ca4ba000fa6c48bcf9054aba upstream.
Commit 5d097056c9a0 ("kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg")
enabled memcg accounting for pids allocated from init_pid_ns.pid_cachep,
but forgot to adjust the setting for nested pid namespaces. As a result,
pid memory is not accounted exactly where it is really needed, inside
memcg-limited containers with their own pid namespaces.
Pid was one the first kernel objects enabled for memcg accounting.
init_pid_ns.pid_cachep marked by SLAB_ACCOUNT and we can expect that any
new pids in the system are memcg-accounted.
Though recently I've noticed that it is wrong. nested pid namespaces
creates own slab caches for pid objects, nested pids have increased size
because contain id both for all parent and for own pid namespaces. The
problem is that these slab caches are _NOT_ marked by SLAB_ACCOUNT, as a
result any pids allocated in nested pid namespaces are not
memcg-accounted.
Pid struct in nested pid namespace consumes up to 500 bytes memory, 100000
such objects gives us up to ~50Mb unaccounted memory, this allow container
to exceed assigned memcg limits.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8b6de616-fd1a-02c6-cbdb-976ecdcfa604@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 5d097056c9a0 ("kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/pid_namespace.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache *create_pid_cac
mutex_lock(&pid_caches_mutex);
/* Name collision forces to do allocation under mutex. */
if (!*pkc)
- *pkc = kmem_cache_create(name, len, 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, 0);
+ *pkc = kmem_cache_create(name, len, 0,
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_ACCOUNT, 0);
mutex_unlock(&pid_caches_mutex);
/* current can fail, but someone else can succeed. */
return READ_ONCE(*pkc);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.14/memcg-enable-accounting-for-pids-in-nested-pid-namespaces.patch
