From dabb16f639820267b3850d804571c70bd93d4e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:46:05 -0800 Subject: oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it enters/leaves the foreground. Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. This patch allows a task to decrease its oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to or its inherited value at fork. Assuming the thread that has forked it has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something higher. Alternative considered: * a setuid binary * a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a setuid or daemon implementation would be complex. The alternatives also have much higher overhead. This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ying Han Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/proc') diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 93f1cdd5d3d..9d096e82b20 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static ssize_t oom_score_adj_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, goto err_task_lock; } - if (oom_score_adj < task->signal->oom_score_adj && + if (oom_score_adj < task->signal->oom_score_adj_min && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) { err = -EACCES; goto err_sighand; @@ -1164,6 +1164,8 @@ static ssize_t oom_score_adj_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, atomic_dec(&task->mm->oom_disable_count); } task->signal->oom_score_adj = oom_score_adj; + if (has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) + task->signal->oom_score_adj_min = oom_score_adj; /* * Scale /proc/pid/oom_adj appropriately ensuring that OOM_DISABLE is * always attainable. -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258