This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-memcg-do-not-declare-oom-from-__gfp_nofail-allocations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a0d8b00a3381f9d75764b3377590451cb0b4fe41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:12:20 -0800
Subject: mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit a0d8b00a3381f9d75764b3377590451cb0b4fe41 upstream.
Commit 84235de394d9 ("fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the
allocator") started recognizing __GFP_NOFAIL in memory cgroups but
forgot to disable the OOM killer.
Any task that does not fail allocation will also not enter the OOM
completion path. So don't declare an OOM state in this case or it'll be
leaked and the task be able to bypass the limit until the next
userspace-triggered page fault cleans up the OOM state.
Reported-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2677,6 +2677,9 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struc
if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
goto bypass;
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
+ oom = false;
+
/*
* We always charge the cgroup the mm_struct belongs to.
* The mm_struct's mem_cgroup changes on task migration if the
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/mm-memcg-do-not-declare-oom-from-__gfp_nofail-allocations.patch
queue-3.12/mm-memcg-do-not-allow-task-about-to-oom-kill-to-bypass-the-limit.patch
queue-3.12/mm-memcg-fix-race-condition-between-memcg-teardown-and-swapin.patch
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