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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	Sebastian Scheinkman <sscheink@redhat.com>,
	dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>, Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/linux: fix memory allocations in containers+SELinux
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:17:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41283b3a-5591-da2b-dea3-f069248d3265@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8zxm=jNLc+nPt74ZzUp5_-dF9OV=ptfBH5yNZg8EKzJ=A@mail.gmail.com>

On 17-Sep-20 2:47 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:46 PM Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:
>>> Removing hugepage files is done in multiple places and the memory
>>> allocation code is complex.
>>> This fix tries to do the minimum and avoids touching other paths.
>>>
>>> If trying to remove the hugepage file before allocating a page fails,
>>> the error is reported to the caller and the user will see a memory
>>> allocation error log.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 582bed1e1d1d ("mem: support mapping hugepages at runtime")
>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> I believe only the primary will try to allocate new pages, but this only
>> covers the page-per-file scenario. There's also legacy mem option (which
>> would attempt to remove files prior to creating new ones - not sure if
>> it's refused in that case), and single file segments option (which will
>> mostly fallocate holes rather than delete files, but may still attempt
>> to delete files - by the way, how does fallocate work with SELinux?).
> 
> This issue should only concern part of the memory allocator that deals
> with "named files" backed hugepages.
> I would focus on the code relying on eal_get_hugefile_path() and I
> agree I might have missed the legacy-mem part.
> 
> For anonymous hugepages this should not matter.
> 
> 

Anonymous hugepages shouldn't matter, yes, but single-file segments mode 
does fallocate() and remove - you have the remove part covered, but i'm 
just curious if fallocate() would also cause any issues with SELinux.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-17 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-10 16:24 David Marchand
2020-09-11 12:46 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-09-17 13:47   ` David Marchand
2020-09-17 14:17     ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2020-09-17 14:44       ` Aaron Conole
2020-09-17 14:47       ` David Marchand
2020-10-02  9:36         ` David Marchand
2020-10-02 12:12           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-10-05 23:13             ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon

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