Revision 6f6acb00514c10be35529402f36ad7a288f08c2e authored by Michal Hocko on 22 May 2014, 18:54:19 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 May 2014, 16:37:29 UTC
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>
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mmu_context.c
/* Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* See ../COPYING for licensing terms.
*/
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mmu_context.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
/*
* use_mm
* Makes the calling kernel thread take on the specified
* mm context.
* (Note: this routine is intended to be called only
* from a kernel thread context)
*/
void use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct mm_struct *active_mm;
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
task_lock(tsk);
active_mm = tsk->active_mm;
if (active_mm != mm) {
atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
tsk->active_mm = mm;
}
tsk->mm = mm;
switch_mm(active_mm, mm, tsk);
task_unlock(tsk);
#ifdef finish_arch_post_lock_switch
finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
#endif
if (active_mm != mm)
mmdrop(active_mm);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(use_mm);
/*
* unuse_mm
* Reverses the effect of use_mm, i.e. releases the
* specified mm context which was earlier taken on
* by the calling kernel thread
* (Note: this routine is intended to be called only
* from a kernel thread context)
*/
void unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
task_lock(tsk);
sync_mm_rss(mm);
tsk->mm = NULL;
/* active_mm is still 'mm' */
enter_lazy_tlb(mm, tsk);
task_unlock(tsk);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unuse_mm);
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