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SeongJae Park eac0c12e32 xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing
commit fed1755b118147721f2c87b37b9d66e62c39b668 upstream.

If handling logics of watch events are slower than the events enqueue
logic and the events can be created from the guests, the guests could
trigger memory pressure by intensively inducing the events, because it
will create a huge number of pending events that exhausting the memory.

Fortunately, some watch events could be ignored, depending on its
handler callback.  For example, if the callback has interest in only one
single path, the watch wouldn't want multiple pending events.  Or, some
watches could ignore events to same path.

To let such watches to volutarily help avoiding the memory pressure
situation, this commit introduces new watch callback, 'will_handle'.  If
it is not NULL, it will be called for each new event just before
enqueuing it.  Then, if the callback returns false, the event will be
discarded.  No watch is using the callback for now, though.

This is part of XSA-349

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Michael Kurth <mku@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-12-30 11:51:46 +01:00
arch um: Remove use of asprinf in umid.c 2020-12-30 11:51:39 +01:00
block blk-mq: In blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() "no budget" is a reason to kick 2020-12-30 11:50:54 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: ecdh - avoid unaligned accesses in ecdh_set_secret() 2020-12-30 11:51:35 +01:00
Documentation KVM: mmu: Fix SPTE encoding of MMIO generation upper half 2020-12-21 13:27:06 +01:00
drivers xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing 2020-12-30 11:51:46 +01:00
fs jfs: Fix array index bounds check in dbAdjTree 2020-12-30 11:51:40 +01:00
include xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing 2020-12-30 11:51:46 +01:00
init initramfs: fix clang build failure 2020-12-30 11:51:30 +01:00
ipc
kernel cpuset: fix race between hotplug work and later CPU offline 2020-12-30 11:51:36 +01:00
lib lib/syscall: fix syscall registers retrieval on 32-bit platforms 2020-12-11 13:23:32 +01:00
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mm mm: don't wake kswapd prematurely when watermark boosting is disabled 2020-12-30 11:51:27 +01:00
net xprtrdma: Fix XDRBUF_SPARSE_PAGES support 2020-12-30 11:51:38 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix lwt_len_hist reusing previous BPF map 2020-12-30 11:51:12 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix return value of do_error_if() 2020-12-30 11:51:29 +01:00
security ima: Don't modify file descriptor mode on the fly 2020-12-30 11:51:39 +01:00
sound ASoC: cx2072x: Fix doubly definitions of Playback and Capture streams 2020-12-30 11:51:35 +01:00
tools perf probe: Fix memory leak when synthesizing SDT probes 2020-12-30 11:51:29 +01:00
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virt KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Drop the reporting of GICR_TYPER.Last for userspace 2020-12-02 08:49:46 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
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