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From: Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	containers@lists.osdl.org, menage@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@sw.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:28:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173817706.6680.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070313190931.1417c012@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 19:09 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > stuff is happening by comparing page->count and page->_mapcount, but it
> > certainly wouldn't be conclusive.  But, does this kind of nonsense even
> > happen in practice?  
> 
> "Is it useful for me as a bad guy to make it happen ?"

A very fine question. ;)

To exploit this, you'd need to:
1. need to access common data with another user
2. be patient enough to wait
3. determine when one of those users had actually pulled
   a page in from disk, which sys_mincore() can do, right?

I guess that might be a decent reason to not charge the guy who brings
the page in for the page's entire lifetime.  

So, unless we can change page ownership after it has been allocated,
anyone accessing shared data can get around resource limits if they are
patient.  

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-13 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 14:42 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Resource controllers based on process containers Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-06 14:49 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] Resource counters Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-07  4:03   ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-07  7:19     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-09 16:37       ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-11  9:01         ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-11 19:00         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-12  1:16           ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13  9:09             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-13  9:27               ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-13  9:49               ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-13 15:21               ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13 15:41                 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-13 16:07                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-03-14  7:12                     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-15 16:51                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-13 16:32                   ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-06 14:55 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-06 22:00   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-09 16:48     ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-11  9:08       ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-11 14:32         ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-11 15:04           ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-12  0:41             ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-12  8:31               ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-12  9:55       ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-12 23:43         ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13  1:57           ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-13  2:24             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-03-13 16:06             ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-11 12:26     ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-11 12:51       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-11 15:51         ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-11 19:34         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-12  9:23           ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-13  9:26             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-13 15:43               ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-12  1:00         ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-12  9:02           ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-12 21:11             ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13  7:17               ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-13 15:05                 ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13 15:32                   ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-13 15:10               ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-13 15:11                 ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13 15:54                   ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-12 18:42           ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-12 22:41             ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-12 23:02               ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-18 16:58                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-13  6:04               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-13 10:19                 ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-13 11:48                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-13 14:59                     ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13 17:05                     ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-14 15:38                       ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-14 20:42                         ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-20 18:57                           ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-18 22:44                       ` [Devel] " Paul Menage
2007-03-19 17:41                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-13 17:26                 ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-13 19:09                   ` Alan Cox
2007-03-13 20:28                     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-03-16  0:55                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-16 16:31                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-16 18:54                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-16 19:46                           ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-18 17:42                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-19 15:48                               ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-20 16:15                               ` controlling mmap()'d vs read/write() pages Dave Hansen
2007-03-20 21:19                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-23  0:51                                   ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-23  5:57                                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-23 10:12                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-23 10:47                                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-23 12:21                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-28  7:33                                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-23 16:41                                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-23 18:16                                         ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-28  9:18                                           ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-14 16:47                   ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core Mel Gorman
2007-03-07  5:37   ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-07  7:27     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-06 14:58 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] Data structures changes for RSS accounting Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-11 19:13   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-12 16:16     ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-12 16:48       ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-12 17:19         ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-12 17:27           ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-13  7:10             ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-12 17:21         ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-06 15:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] RSS accounting hooks over the code Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-11 19:14   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-12 16:23     ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-12 16:50       ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-12 17:07         ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-12 17:33           ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-13  9:43             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-12 23:54         ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-03-13  9:58           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-13 10:25             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 16:01               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-14  3:51                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-14  6:42                   ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-14  6:57                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-14  7:48                       ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-14 13:25                         ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-03-14 13:49                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-14 14:43                             ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-03-14 16:16                             ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-03-15  5:01                               ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-15  5:44                                 ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-28 20:15               ` Ethan Solomita
2007-03-14 15:37   ` Cedric Le Goater
2007-03-14 15:45     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-06 15:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] Per-container OOM killer and page reclamation Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-09 21:21   ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-11  8:41     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-06 15:04 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] Account for the number of tasks within container Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-07  2:00   ` Paul Menage
2007-03-07  7:13     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-08 13:49       ` Paul Menage
2007-03-11  8:36         ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-06 15:07 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] Account for the number of files opened " Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-07  2:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Resource controllers based on process containers Paul Menage
2007-03-07  7:30   ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-07  6:52 ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-07  7:32   ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-03-07  9:43     ` Kirill Korotaev

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