From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com>,
menage@google.com, containers@lists.osdl.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@sw.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:55:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1mz2enh0u.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070313190931.1417c012@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (Alan Cox's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:09:31 +0000")
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> 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 ?"
To create a DOS attack.
- Allocate some memory you know your victim will want in the future,
(shared libraries and the like).
- Wait until your victim is using the memory you allocated.
- Terminate your memory resource group.
- Victim is pushed over memory limits by your exiting.
- Victim can no longer allocate memory
- Victim dies
It's not quite that easy unless your victim calls mlockall(MCL_FUTURE),
but the potential is clearly there.
Am I missing something? Or is this fundamental to any first touch scenario?
I just know I have problems with first touch because it is darn hard to
reason about.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 0:57 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
2007-03-16 0:55 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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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