From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
To: "Burakov\, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Scheinkman <sscheink@redhat.com>,
dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/linux: fix memory allocations in containers+SELinux
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:44:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7timccihsz.fsf@dhcp-25.97.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41283b3a-5591-da2b-dea3-f069248d3265@intel.com> (Anatoly Burakov's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:17:13 +0100")
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> writes:
> 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.
I think it might depend on the policy, file types, and labels allowed
for the process. I did a little bit of digging but didn't find anything
that specifically targets that call. I guess it may be something like:
allow dom_t obj_t:file { getattr setattr appent ioctl lock open read
write };
BUT that's just a guess without any real testing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 14:44 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
2020-09-17 14:44 ` Aaron Conole [this message]
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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