memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg

The cred_jar kmem_cache is already memcg accounted in the current kernel
but cred->security is not.  Account cred->security to kmemcg.

Recently we saw high root slab usage on our production and on further
inspection, we found a buggy application leaking processes.  Though that
buggy application was contained within its memcg but we observe much
more system memory overhead, couple of GiBs, during that period.  This
overhead can adversely impact the isolation on the system.

One source of high overhead we found was cred->security objects, which
have a lifetime of at least the life of the process which allocated
them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Chris Down <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index c0a4c12d38b20ed80254c76acb28c6d060b1df86..9ed51b70ed8091fa90cf0ecfe887d8504a84c3bb 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void)
        new->magic = CRED_MAGIC;
 #endif
 
-       if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
+       if (security_cred_alloc_blank(new, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
                goto error;
 
        return new;
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void)
        new->security = NULL;
 #endif
 
-       if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
+       if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
                goto error;
        validate_creds(new);
        return new;
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
        new->security = NULL;
 #endif
-       if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
+       if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
                goto error;
 
        put_cred(old);