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Bound the runner's containers and keep its disk free
4e3759da08a603ede50107e89a23ff6d5432b7ac · Keenan Nemetz · 6h ago · parent c4ad0d5a
Bound the runner's containers and keep its disk free The container boundary was good and the resource the job consumes was not. A job could fork without a bound, write /tmp until the machine's RAM was gone, and fill the disk its workspace sits on — and the runner would only notice when a build died. The isolation protects the forge's data; this protects the machine that runs the code. - `--container-pids` now defaults to 2048 and zero means the default, not "no limit": a bound nobody set is the easiest one to be missing, and a job that can fork without one is a fork bomb away from taking the machine. - `--container-tmpfs` is new and defaults to 1G. /tmp is a tmpfs, so its size is memory, and an unsized one is a build that fills RAM without writing a byte to the workspace. It is passed to service containers too. - `--container-memory` stays the operator's setting rather than a default, because the right number is the machine's size and a wrong default would show up as an OOM kill in someone's build. All three places a runner is configured now set it: the packaged runner.env example, the manual steps in the deploy guide, and the cloud-init template (RUNNER_MEMORY, default 4G, alongside RUNNER_PIDS, RUNNER_TMPFS and RUNNER_DISK_RESERVE). - `--disk-reserve` (default 2G) is how the job tree is bounded. It is a host bind mount, so the runtime cannot quota it and a filesystem quota needs root; a walker over the tree would cost more than it protects. What the runner can promise is that it notices: one statfs per second while a command runs, and the job is stopped below the reserve with the numbers in its log. `--dir` on its own sized filesystem is the hard bound, and the docs say so. - The runner unit gets `MemoryMax=90%` as the backstop under all of it, for a job that gets past its own cgroup. It is a percentage so the unit does not have to know the machine. TasksMax is deliberately not set: the container's own --container-pids already applies, and a unit value would have to track --jobs and --container-pids and would fail builds, looking like the workflow's fault, when they drifted apart. A workflow still cannot raise or remove any of this: the limits are flags on the runner and the unit, never fields a job can set. scripts/check-deploy.py now fails when the rendered runner arguments stop carrying the memory, pids, tmpfs or disk limits, so the first-boot file cannot quietly lose them. Closes 01M6S798BH0BK00R2B5N1KDJYM
packaging/systemd/vole-runner.service +10
| @@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ TimeoutStopSec=60s | |||
| 38 | 38 | # service's own cgroup is delegated to it. | |
| 39 | 39 | Delegate=yes | |
| 40 | 40 | ||
| 41 | # The backstop under the container limits. Each job gets --container-memory, and this | ||
| 42 | # bounds the whole runner including every job in flight, for the case where a job gets | ||
| 43 | # past its own cgroup: a percentage is of the machine, so the unit does not have to | ||
| 44 | # know how big it is. Size --jobs times --container-memory below it, and leave the rest | ||
| 45 | # for the kernel and the runtime's own storage. TasksMax is deliberately not set: the | ||
| 46 | # container's own --container-pids already applies to everything the runner starts, | ||
| 47 | # and a unit-level value would have to track --jobs and --container-pids, failing | ||
| 48 | # builds in a way that looks like the workflow's fault when it drifts. | ||
| 49 | MemoryMax=90% | ||
| 50 | |||
| 41 | 51 | # A core dump of this process is a copy of the runner's SSH key, which leases jobs | |
| 42 | 52 | # and reports their results. | |
| 43 | 53 | LimitCORE=0 | |