The patch titled Subject: mm, memcg: Prevent memory.oom_control load/store tearing has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-memcg-prevent-memoryoom_control-load-store-tearing.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-memcg-prevent-memoryoom_control-load-store-tearing.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yue Zhao <findns94@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, memcg: Prevent memory.oom_control load/store tearing Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 23:41:37 +0800 The knob for cgroup v1 memory controller: memory.oom_control is not protected by any locking so it can be modified while it is used. This is not an actual problem because races are unlikely. But it is better to use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE to prevent compiler from doing anything funky. The access of memcg->oom_kill_disable is lockless, so it can be concurrently set at the same time as we are trying to read it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230306154138.3775-4-findns94@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yue Zhao <findns94@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tang Yizhou <tangyeechou@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-prevent-memoryoom_control-load-store-tearing +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4515,7 +4515,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_read(s { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_seq(sf); - seq_printf(sf, "oom_kill_disable %d\n", memcg->oom_kill_disable); + seq_printf(sf, "oom_kill_disable %d\n", READ_ONCE(memcg->oom_kill_disable)); seq_printf(sf, "under_oom %d\n", (bool)memcg->under_oom); seq_printf(sf, "oom_kill %lu\n", atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events[MEMCG_OOM_KILL])); @@ -4531,7 +4531,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_write( if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) || !((val == 0) || (val == 1))) return -EINVAL; - memcg->oom_kill_disable = val; + WRITE_ONCE(memcg->oom_kill_disable, val); if (!val) memcg_oom_recover(memcg); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from findns94@xxxxxxxxx are mm-memcg-prevent-memoryoomgroup-load-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memoryswappiness-load-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memoryoom_control-load-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memorysoft_limit_in_bytes-load-store-tearing.patch