The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 6c4687cc17a788a6dd8de3e27dbeabb7cbd3e066 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:36:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] uprobes: Fix the memcg accounting
__replace_page() wronlgy calls mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() in "success" path,
it should only do this if page_check_address() fails.
This means that every enable/disable leads to unbalanced mem_cgroup_uncharge()
from put_page(old_page), it is trivial to underflow the page_counter->count
and trigger OOM.
Reported-and-tested-by: Brenden Blanco <bblanco@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.17+
Fixes: 00501b531c47 ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160817153629.GB29724@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index b7a525ab2083..8c50276b60d1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -172,8 +172,10 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
err = -EAGAIN;
ptep = page_check_address(page, mm, addr, &ptl, 0);
- if (!ptep)
+ if (!ptep) {
+ mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(kpage, memcg, false);
goto unlock;
+ }
get_page(kpage);
page_add_new_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr, false);
@@ -200,7 +202,6 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
err = 0;
unlock:
- mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(kpage, memcg, false);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
unlock_page(page);
return err;
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