Re: [PATCH 08/12] cgroups: Pull up res counter charge failureinterpretation to caller

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue,  6 Sep 2011 02:13:02 +0200
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> res_counter_charge() always returns -ENOMEM when the limit is reached
> and the charge thus can't happen.
> 
> However it's up to the caller to interpret this failure and return
> the appropriate error value. The task counter subsystem will need
> to report the user that a fork() has been cancelled because of some
> limit reached, not because we are too short on memory.
> 
> Fix this by returning -1 when res_counter_charge() fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/res_counter.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/res_counter.c b/kernel/res_counter.c
> index 4aaa790..45fa6fb 100644
> --- a/kernel/res_counter.c
> +++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ int res_counter_charge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
>  {
>  	if (counter->usage + val > counter->limit) {
>  		counter->failcnt++;
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		return -1;
>  	}
>  
>  	counter->usage += val;

This also affects the return value of your new and undocumented
res_counter_charge_until().

That's a bit of a hand-grenade which could lead to system calls
returning -1 (ie: EPERM) to userspace.

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