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epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches

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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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi
2009-01-29 14:25:26 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3095eb87bb
commit 9df04e1f25
2 changed files with 4 additions and 19 deletions
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fs/eventpoll.c
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@@ -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;
@@ -260,14 +258,6 @@ static struct kmem_cache *pwq_cache __read_mostly;
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,
@@ -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 **pep)
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, flags)
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 */