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author | Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de> | 2015-02-23 23:37:59 +0300 |
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committer | Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> | 2015-02-23 23:37:59 +0300 |
commit | f1aaf26224bee779012aab136e5373ce3487982c (patch) | |
tree | d0c309cc10f29c2643e3214783fd65d835ba13bd /kernel/audit_tree.c | |
parent | 2fded7f44b8fcf79e274c3f0cfbd0298f95308f3 (diff) |
audit: move the tree pruning to a dedicated thread
When file auditing is enabled, during a low memory situation, a memory
allocation with __GFP_FS can lead to pruning the inode cache. Which can,
in turn lead to audit_tree_freeing_mark() being called. This can call
audit_schedule_prune(), that tries to fork a pruning thread, and
waits until the thread is created. But forking needs memory, and the
memory allocations there are done with __GFP_FS.
So we are waiting merrily for some __GFP_FS memory allocations to complete,
while holding some filesystem locks. This can take a while ...
This patch creates a single thread for pruning the tree from
audit_add_tree_rule(), and thus avoids the deadlock that the on-demand
thread creation can cause.
Reported-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/audit_tree.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/audit_tree.c | 88 |
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c index 80f29e015570..415072c8e875 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct audit_chunk { static LIST_HEAD(tree_list); static LIST_HEAD(prune_list); +static struct task_struct *prune_thread; /* * One struct chunk is attached to each inode of interest. @@ -651,6 +652,57 @@ static int tag_mount(struct vfsmount *mnt, void *arg) return tag_chunk(mnt->mnt_root->d_inode, arg); } +/* + * That gets run when evict_chunk() ends up needing to kill audit_tree. + * Runs from a separate thread. + */ +static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) +{ + for (;;) { + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + if (list_empty(&prune_list)) + schedule(); + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); + mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); + + while (!list_empty(&prune_list)) { + struct audit_tree *victim; + + victim = list_entry(prune_list.next, + struct audit_tree, list); + list_del_init(&victim->list); + + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + + prune_one(victim); + + mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); + } + + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex); + } + return 0; +} + +static int audit_launch_prune(void) +{ + if (prune_thread) + return 0; + prune_thread = kthread_create(prune_tree_thread, NULL, + "audit_prune_tree"); + if (IS_ERR(prune_thread)) { + pr_err("cannot start thread audit_prune_tree"); + prune_thread = NULL; + return -ENOMEM; + } else { + wake_up_process(prune_thread); + return 0; + } +} + /* called with audit_filter_mutex */ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule) { @@ -674,6 +726,12 @@ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule) /* do not set rule->tree yet */ mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + if (unlikely(!prune_thread)) { + err = audit_launch_prune(); + if (err) + goto Err; + } + err = kern_path(tree->pathname, 0, &path); if (err) goto Err; @@ -811,36 +869,10 @@ int audit_tag_tree(char *old, char *new) return failed; } -/* - * That gets run when evict_chunk() ends up needing to kill audit_tree. - * Runs from a separate thread. - */ -static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) -{ - mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); - mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); - - while (!list_empty(&prune_list)) { - struct audit_tree *victim; - - victim = list_entry(prune_list.next, struct audit_tree, list); - list_del_init(&victim->list); - - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); - - prune_one(victim); - - mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); - } - - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); - mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex); - return 0; -} static void audit_schedule_prune(void) { - kthread_run(prune_tree_thread, NULL, "audit_prune_tree"); + wake_up_process(prune_thread); } /* @@ -907,9 +939,9 @@ static void evict_chunk(struct audit_chunk *chunk) for (n = 0; n < chunk->count; n++) list_del_init(&chunk->owners[n].list); spin_unlock(&hash_lock); + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); if (need_prune) audit_schedule_prune(); - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); } static int audit_tree_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, |