[natty/ti-omap4 CVE 1/1] oom: use pte pages in OOM score
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Mon Feb 6 09:37:14 UTC 2012
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
PTE pages eat up memory just like anything else, but we do not account for
them in any way in the OOM scores. They are also _guaranteed_ to get
freed up when a process is OOM killed, while RSS is not.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Cc: <stable at kernel.org> [2.6.36+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit f755a042d82b51b54f3bdd0890e5ea56c0fb6807)
CVE-2011-2498
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/922374
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index ea16f72..49ea0cc 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -172,10 +172,13 @@ unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
/*
* The baseline for the badness score is the proportion of RAM that each
- * task's rss and swap space use.
+ * task's rss, pagetable and swap space use.
*/
- points = (get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS)) * 1000 /
- totalpages;
+ points = get_mm_rss(p->mm) + p->mm->nr_ptes;
+ points += get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
+
+ points *= 1000;
+ points /= totalpages;
task_unlock(p);
/*
--
1.7.8.3
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