From a80c4adcb574821e534779c48ae13953b7d1d996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:46:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ipc,namespace: make ipc namespace allocation wait for pending
free
Currently the ipc namespace allocation will fail when there are
ipc_namespace structures pending to be freed. This results in the
simple test case below, as well as some real world workloads, to
get allocation failures even when the number of ipc namespaces in
actual use is way below the limit.
int main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) < 0)
error(EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "unshare");
}
}
Make the allocation of an ipc_namespace wait for pending frees,
so it will succeed.
real 6m19.197s
user 0m0.041s
sys 0m1.019s
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
ipc/namespace.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ipc/namespace.c b/ipc/namespace.c
index 8316ea5857333..a26860a41daca 100644
--- a/ipc/namespace.c
+++ b/ipc/namespace.c
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@
#include "util.h"
+/*
+ * The work queue is used to avoid the cost of synchronize_rcu in kern_unmount.
+ */
+static void free_ipc(struct work_struct *unused);
+static DECLARE_WORK(free_ipc_work, free_ipc);
+
static struct ucounts *inc_ipc_namespaces(struct user_namespace *ns)
{
return inc_ucount(ns, current_euid(), UCOUNT_IPC_NAMESPACES);
@@ -37,9 +43,18 @@ static struct ipc_namespace *create_ipc_ns(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
int err;
err = -ENOSPC;
+ again:
ucounts = inc_ipc_namespaces(user_ns);
- if (!ucounts)
+ if (!ucounts) {
+ /*
+ * IPC namespaces are freed asynchronously, by free_ipc_work.
+ * If frees were pending, flush_work will wait, and
+ * return true. Fail the allocation if no frees are pending.
+ */
+ if (flush_work(&free_ipc_work))
+ goto again;
goto fail;
+ }
err = -ENOMEM;
ns = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipc_namespace), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
@@ -157,11 +172,6 @@ static void free_ipc(struct work_struct *unused)
free_ipc_ns(n);
}
-/*
- * The work queue is used to avoid the cost of synchronize_rcu in kern_unmount.
- */
-static DECLARE_WORK(free_ipc_work, free_ipc);
-
/*
* put_ipc_ns - drop a reference to an ipc namespace.
* @ns: the namespace to put
--
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