bpf: don't trigger OOM killer under pressure with map alloc

This patch adds two helpers, bpf_map_area_alloc() and bpf_map_area_free(),
that are to be used for map allocations. Using kmalloc() for very large
allocations can cause excessive work within the page allocator, so i) fall
back earlier to vmalloc() when the attempt is considered costly anyway,
and even more importantly ii) don't trigger OOM killer with any of the
allocators.

Since this is based on a user space request, for example, when creating
maps with element pre-allocation, we really want such requests to fail
instead of killing other user space processes.

Also, don't spam the kernel log with warnings should any of the allocations
fail under pressure. Given that, we can make backend selection in
bpf_map_area_alloc() generic, and convert all maps over to use this API
for spots with potentially large allocation requests.

Note, replacing the one kmalloc_array() is fine as overflow checks happen
earlier in htab_map_alloc(), since it must also protect the multiplication
for vmalloc() should kmalloc_array() fail.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index 05cf951df3fe..3ed1f3b1d594 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ struct bpf_map * __must_check bpf_map_inc(struct bpf_map *map, bool uref);
 void bpf_map_put_with_uref(struct bpf_map *map);
 void bpf_map_put(struct bpf_map *map);
 int bpf_map_precharge_memlock(u32 pages);
+void *bpf_map_area_alloc(size_t size);
+void bpf_map_area_free(void *base);
 
 extern int sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled;