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Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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The locked_vm field in struct user_struct was originally introduced by commit789f90fcf6("perf_counter: per user mlock gift") to provide an mlock-like budget for perf measured against mm->pinned_vm (since 2011). perf grants each user a 'gift' of perf_event_mlock_kb * online CPUs of buffer pages which is charged to user->locked_vm without any RLIMIT_MEMLOCK check. Only pages beyond the gift are checked against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, per-mm, via mm->pinned_vm, which makes it different from the standard mlock() check, which is per-mm and made against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. However, since this was introduced, a number of other components have utilised this field where a shared resource needed to be limited against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. The other users are currently MSG_ZEROCOPY, io_uring, AF_XDP, iommufd, s390 KVM zPCI and most recently, secretmem in commit97d34aa65c("mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages"). This field is shared between all of these, but because the gift is not checked against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, user->locked_vm alone can exceed it - 16 CPUs * 516 KiB is already more than the default 8 MiB - after which every other user of the field fails unconditionally. This was reported by a user who saw secretmem failing while running a simultaneous perf record. Resolve the issue by simply giving perf its own field separate from the rest. BPF used user->locked_vm up until commit80ee81e040("bpf: Eliminate rlimit-based memory accounting infra for bpf maps") which landed in 5.11. Thus also eliminate the now-defunct ifdef for CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL for user->locked_vm. This issue exists between all of the components which use user->locked_vm and perf, however secretmem is the first user who has caused a report over many years and has been backported, so target the fix at that. Fixes:97d34aa65c("mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected] Reported-by: Ameer Hamza <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
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