Subject: [merged] mm-memcg-use-proper-memcg-in-limit-bypass.patch removed from -mm tree To: hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,mhocko@xxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:11:15 -0700 The patch titled Subject: mm: memcg: use proper memcg in limit bypass has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-memcg-use-proper-memcg-in-limit-bypass.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: memcg: use proper memcg in limit bypass 84235de ("fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator") allowed __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to bypass the limit if they fail to reclaim enough memory for the charge. Because the main test case was on a 3.2-based system, this patch missed the fact that on newer kernels the charge function needs to return root_mem_cgroup when bypassing the limit, and not NULL. This will corrupt whatever memory is at NULL + percpu pointer offset. Fix this quickly before problems are reported. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-use-proper-memcg-in-limit-bypass mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-use-proper-memcg-in-limit-bypass +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2765,10 +2765,10 @@ done: *ptr = memcg; return 0; nomem: - *ptr = NULL; - if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) - return 0; - return -ENOMEM; + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) { + *ptr = NULL; + return -ENOMEM; + } bypass: *ptr = root_mem_cgroup; return -EINTR; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-nobootmemc-have-__free_pages_memory-free-in-larger-chunks.patch memcg-refactor-mem_control_numa_stat_show.patch memcg-support-hierarchical-memorynuma_stats.patch memblock-factor-out-of-top-down-allocation.patch memblock-introduce-bottom-up-allocation-mode.patch x86-mm-factor-out-of-top-down-direct-mapping-setup.patch x86-mem-hotplug-support-initialize-page-tables-in-bottom-up.patch x86-acpi-crash-kdump-do-reserve_crashkernel-after-srat-is-parsed.patch mem-hotplug-introduce-movable_node-boot-option.patch swap-add-a-simple-detector-for-inappropriate-swapin-readahead-fix.patch percpu-add-test-module-for-various-percpu-operations.patch linux-next.patch mm-avoid-increase-sizeofstruct-page-due-to-split-page-table-lock.patch mm-rename-use_split_ptlocks-to-use_split_pte_ptlocks.patch mm-convert-mm-nr_ptes-to-atomic_long_t.patch mm-introduce-api-for-split-page-table-lock-for-pmd-level.patch mm-thp-change-pmd_trans_huge_lock-to-return-taken-lock.patch mm-thp-move-ptl-taking-inside-page_check_address_pmd.patch mm-thp-do-not-access-mm-pmd_huge_pte-directly.patch mm-hugetlb-convert-hugetlbfs-to-use-split-pmd-lock.patch mm-convert-the-rest-to-new-page-table-lock-api.patch mm-implement-split-page-table-lock-for-pmd-level.patch x86-mm-enable-split-page-table-lock-for-pmd-level.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2-fix-fix-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html