Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:05:25 -0700 | From | Jaegeuk Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] f2fs: set deadline to drop expired inmem pages |
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On 04/13, Chao Yu wrote: > On 2018/4/13 9:04, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: > > On 04/10, Chao Yu wrote: > >> Hi Jaegeuk, > >> > >> On 2018/4/8 16:13, Chao Yu wrote: > >>> f2fs doesn't allow abuse on atomic write class interface, so except > >>> limiting in-mem pages' total memory usage capacity, we need to limit > >>> start-commit time as well, otherwise we may run into infinite loop > >>> during foreground GC because target blocks in victim segment are > >>> belong to atomic opened file for long time. > >>> > >>> Now, we will check the condition with f2fs_balance_fs_bg in > >>> background threads, once if user doesn't commit data exceeding 30 > >>> seconds, we will drop all cached data, so I expect it can keep our > >>> system running safely to prevent Dos attack. > >> > >> Is it worth to add this patch to avoid abuse on atomic write interface by user? > > > > Hmm, hope to see a real problem first in this case. > > I think this can be a more critical security leak instead of a potential issue > which we can wait for someone reporting that can be too late. > > For example, user can simply write a huge file whose data spread in all f2fs > segments, once user open that file as atomic, foreground GC will suffer > deadloop, causing denying any further service of f2fs.
How can you guarantee it won't happen within 30sec? If you want to avoid that, you have to take a look at foreground gc.
> > Thanks, > > > > >> Thanks, > > > > . > >
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