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Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib

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Michal,

Am 05.01.2017 um 11:53 schrieb Michal Hocko:
> I guess you meant s@overflow@underflow@ right?

Yep, of course.

> On Thu 05-01-17 00:29:18, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> /proc/<pid>/status can report extremely high VmLib values which
>> will confuse monitoring tools.
>> VmLib is mm->exec_vm minus text size, where exec_vm is the number of
>> bytes backed by an executable memory mapping and text size is
>> mm->end_code - mm->start_code as set up by binfmt.
>>
>> For the vast majority of all programs text size is smaller than exec_vm.
>> But if a program interprets binaries on its own the calculation result
>> can be negative.
>> UserModeLinux is such an example. It installs and removes lots of PROT_EXEC
>> mappings but mm->start_code and mm->start_code remain and VmLib turns
>> negative.
>>
>> Fix this by detecting the overflow and just return 0.
>> For interpreting the value reported by VmLib is anyway useless but
>> returning 0 does at least not confuse userspace.
> 
> Is really 0 what the userspace expects? Why shouldn't we just report
> exec_vm unconditionally? Btw. we used to do something that many years
> back https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/24/47. We are exporting the text size
> so the calculation can be done by the userspace.

Strictly speaking both values, 0 and exec_vm are wrong.
Userspace expects VmLib to be 0 when an application has no libs loaded,
i.e. for statically linked binaries.

So, either we report 0 as "I don't know" or exec_vm, which is also wrong.
I thought 0 is the better choice since it will not lead to wrong results
when userspace tools compute the sum of values reported by /proc/<pid>/status.

Thanks,
//richard

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[PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-01-05 00:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-01-05 09:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-01-05 12:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-01-05 12:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-01-05 13:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-01-05 14:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-01-05 14:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-01-06 01:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix integer overflow of VmLib Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> - 2017-01-05 13:10 +0100

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