The patch titled Subject: oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue same task twice has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is oom-oom_reaper-do-not-enqueue-same-task-twice.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/oom-oom_reaper-do-not-enqueue-same-task-twice.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/oom-oom_reaper-do-not-enqueue-same-task-twice.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue same task twice Arkadiusz reported that enabling memcg's group oom killing causes strange memcg statistics where there is no task in a memcg despite the number of tasks in that memcg is not 0. It turned out that there is a bug in wake_oom_reaper() which allows enqueuing same task twice which makes impossible to decrease the number of tasks in that memcg due to a refcount leak. This bug existed since the OOM reaper became invokable from task_will_free_mem(current) path in out_of_memory() in Linux 4.7, but memcg's group oom killing made it easier to trigger this bug by calling wake_oom_reaper() on the same task from one out_of_memory() request. Fix this bug using an approach used by commit 855b018325737f76 ("oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for oom_kill_allocating_task"). As a side effect of this patch, this patch also avoids enqueuing multiple threads sharing memory via task_will_free_mem(current) path. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e865a044-2c10-9858-f4ef-254bc71d6cc2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: af8e15cc85a25315 ("oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue task if it is on the oom_reaper_list head") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jay Kamat <jgkamat@xxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched/coredump.h | 1 + mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h~oom-oom_reaper-do-not-enqueue-same-task-twice +++ a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm #define MMF_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE 23 /* mm has ever used the global huge zero page */ #define MMF_DISABLE_THP 24 /* disable THP for all VMAs */ #define MMF_OOM_VICTIM 25 /* mm is the oom victim */ +#define MMF_OOM_REAP_QUEUED 26 /* mm was queued for oom_reaper */ #define MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK (1 << MMF_DISABLE_THP) #define MMF_INIT_MASK (MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK |\ --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-oom_reaper-do-not-enqueue-same-task-twice +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -647,8 +647,8 @@ static int oom_reaper(void *unused) static void wake_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk) { - /* tsk is already queued? */ - if (tsk == oom_reaper_list || tsk->oom_reaper_list) + /* mm is already queued? */ + if (test_and_set_bit(MMF_OOM_REAP_QUEUED, &tsk->signal->oom_mm->flags)) return; get_task_struct(tsk); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are oom-oom_reaper-do-not-enqueue-same-task-twice.patch info-task-hung-in-generic_file_write_iter.patch info-task-hung-in-generic_file_write-fix.patch