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Michal Hocko committed 6f6acb00514
memcg: fix swapcache charge from kernel thread context
Commit 284f39afeaa4 ("mm: memcg: push !mm handling out to page cache
charge function") explicitly checks for page cache charges without any
mm context (from kernel thread context[1]).
This seemed to be the only possible case where memory could be charged
without mm context so commit 03583f1a631c ("memcg: remove unnecessary
!mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()") removed the mm check from
get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(). This however caused another NULL ptr
dereference during early boot when loopback kernel thread splices to
tmpfs as reported by Stephan Kulow:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000360
IP: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.isra.42+0x2b/0x60
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: btrfs dm_multipath dm_mod scsi_dh multipath raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 md_mod parport_pc parport nls_utf8 isofs usb_storage iscsi_ibft iscsi_boot_sysfs arc4 ecb fan thermal nfs lockd fscache nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 sg st hid_generic usbhid af_packet sunrpc sr_mod cdrom ata_generic uhci_hcd virtio_net virtio_blk ehci_hcd usbcore ata_piix floppy processor button usb_common virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio edd squashfs loop ppa]
CPU: 0 PID: 97 Comm: loop1 Not tainted 3.15.0-rc5-5-default #1
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
__mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x40/0xe0
mem_cgroup_charge_file+0x8b/0xd0
shmem_getpage_gfp+0x66b/0x7b0
shmem_file_splice_read+0x18f/0x430
splice_direct_to_actor+0xa2/0x1c0
do_lo_receive+0x5a/0x60 [loop]
loop_thread+0x298/0x720 [loop]
kthread+0xc6/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
Also Branimir Maksimovic reported the following oops which is tiggered
for the swapcache charge path from the accounting code for kernel threads:
CPU: 1 PID: 160 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: P OE 3.15.0-rc5-core2-custom #159
Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/MAXIMUSV GENE, BIOS 1903 08/19/2013
task: ffff880404e349b0 ti: ffff88040486a000 task.ti: ffff88040486a000
RIP: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.isra.42+0x2b/0x60
Call Trace:
__mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x45/0xf0
mem_cgroup_charge_file+0x9c/0xe0
shmem_getpage_gfp+0x62c/0x770
shmem_write_begin+0x38/0x40
generic_perform_write+0xc5/0x1c0
__generic_file_aio_write+0x1d1/0x3f0
generic_file_aio_write+0x4f/0xc0
do_sync_write+0x5a/0x90
do_acct_process+0x4b1/0x550
acct_process+0x6d/0xa0
do_exit+0x827/0xa70
kthread+0xc3/0xf0
This patch fixes the issue by reintroducing mm check into
get_mem_cgroup_from_mm. We could do the same trick in
__mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin as we do for the regular page cache path
but it is not worth troubles. The check is not that expensive and it is
better to have get_mem_cgroup_from_mm more robust.
[1] - http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139463617808941&w=2
Fixes: 03583f1a631c ("memcg: remove unnecessary !mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()")
Reported-and-tested-by: Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.com>
Reported-by: Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>