talloc: talloc_set_memlimit causes all reallocs to fail when used on pools. talloc_set_memlimit not enforced correctly on pools.
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Tue Oct 20 05:50:23 UTC 2020
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:17:29PM -0500, Arran Cudbard-Bell via samba-technical wrote:
> Much appreciated! I'll try this out tomorrow.
>
> Just so I'm clear on the expected behaviour, could
> you verify that these assumptions are correct:
>
> 1. If there's a 1024 byte pool, with a 2048 byte memlimit,
> the amount of memory allocated outside of the pool would
> be limited to 1024 bytes.
Yes. Pool == 1024 bytes allocated, any extra must be
below total size (including pool, which is treated
as allocated).
> 2. If there's a 1024 byte pool, with a 1024 byte memlimit,
> any alloc or realloc up to the pool size would succeed,
> but any alloc or realloc which'd result in a chunk being
> allocated outside of pool memory would fail.
Yes. memlimit == pool size, so any further mallocs/reallocs
adding memory should fail.
> 3. If there's a 1024 byte pool, with a 512 byte memlimit,
> the memlimit would cause all reallocs and allocs to
> fail, because the pool size is already greater than the
> memlimit.
No. Allocations inside the pool below 1024 bytes would
always succeed (until the pool is filled) as when allocating
from a pool the memlimit isn't checked if the allocation
can be filled from within the pool.
memlimit is only checked in actual malloc/realloc calls.
If a pool already exists, it's assumed that it must already
have fit within the memlimit. It makes no sense to
set the limit lower than the pool size.
> Additionally, if the third assumption is correct, do you
> see any value in instead having talloc_set_memlimit
> fail if a caller specifies a memlimit smaller than the pool?
Nope. See above.
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