If __get_user_pages() is faulting a significant number of hugetlb pages, usually as the result of mmap(MAP_LOCKED), it can potentially allocate a very large amount of memory. If the process has been oom killed, this will cause a lot of memory to be overcharged to its memcg since it has access to memory reserves or could potentially deplete all system memory reserves. In the same way that commit 4779280d1ea4 ("mm: make get_user_pages() interruptible") aborted for pending SIGKILLs when faulting non-hugetlb memory, based on the premise of commit 462e00cc7151 ("oom: stop allocating user memory if TIF_MEMDIE is set"), hugetlb page faults now terminate when the process has been oom killed. Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/gup.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, if (!vma || check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags)) return i ? : -EFAULT; if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) { + if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(current))) + return i ? : -ERESTARTSYS; i = follow_hugetlb_page(mm, vma, pages, vmas, &start, &nr_pages, i, gup_flags); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>