try_charge maybe executed in packet receive path, which is in interrupt context. In this situation, the 'current' is the interrupted task, which may has no relation to the rx softirq, So it is nonsense to use 'current'. Avoid bothering the interrupted if page_counter_try_charge failes. Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 68ef266..13f95db 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2123,6 +2123,9 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, goto retry; } + if (in_softirq()) + goto nomem; + /* * Unlike in global OOM situations, memcg is not in a physical * memory shortage. Allow dying and OOM-killed tasks to -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html