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    memcg: fix swapcache charge from kernel thread context · 6f6acb00
    Michal Hocko authored
    Commit 284f39af ("mm: memcg: push !mm handling out to page cache
    charge function") explicitly checks for page cache charges without any
    mm context (from kernel thread context[1]).
    
    This seemed to be the only possible case where memory could be charged
    without mm context so commit 03583f1a ("memcg: remove unnecessary
    !mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()") removed the mm check from
    get_mem_cgroup_from_mm().  This however caused another NULL ptr
    dereference during early boot when loopback kernel thread splices to
    tmpfs as reported by Stephan Kulow:
    
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000360
      IP: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.isra.42+0x2b/0x60
      Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
      Modules linked in: btrfs dm_multipath dm_mod scsi_dh multipath raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 md_mod parport_pc parport nls_utf8 isofs usb_storage iscsi_ibft iscsi_boot_sysfs arc4 ecb fan thermal nfs lockd fscache nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 sg st hid_generic usbhid af_packet sunrpc sr_mod cdrom ata_generic uhci_hcd virtio_net virtio_blk ehci_hcd usbcore ata_piix floppy processor button usb_common virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio edd squashfs loop ppa]
      CPU: 0 PID: 97 Comm: loop1 Not tainted 3.15.0-rc5-5-default #1
      Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
      Call Trace:
        __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x40/0xe0
        mem_cgroup_charge_file+0x8b/0xd0
        shmem_getpage_gfp+0x66b/0x7b0
        shmem_file_splice_read+0x18f/0x430
        splice_direct_to_actor+0xa2/0x1c0
        do_lo_receive+0x5a/0x60 [loop]
        loop_thread+0x298/0x720 [loop]
        kthread+0xc6/0xe0
        ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
    
    Also Branimir Maksimovic reported the following oops which is tiggered
    for the swapcache charge path from the accounting code for kernel threads:
    
      CPU: 1 PID: 160 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: P           OE 3.15.0-rc5-core2-custom #159
      Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/MAXIMUSV GENE, BIOS 1903 08/19/2013
      task: ffff880404e349b0 ti: ffff88040486a000 task.ti: ffff88040486a000
      RIP: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.isra.42+0x2b/0x60
      Call Trace:
        __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x45/0xf0
        mem_cgroup_charge_file+0x9c/0xe0
        shmem_getpage_gfp+0x62c/0x770
        shmem_write_begin+0x38/0x40
        generic_perform_write+0xc5/0x1c0
        __generic_file_aio_write+0x1d1/0x3f0
        generic_file_aio_write+0x4f/0xc0
        do_sync_write+0x5a/0x90
        do_acct_process+0x4b1/0x550
        acct_process+0x6d/0xa0
        do_exit+0x827/0xa70
        kthread+0xc3/0xf0
    
    This patch fixes the issue by reintroducing mm check into
    get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.  We could do the same trick in
    __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin as we do for the regular page cache path
    but it is not worth troubles.  The check is not that expensive and it is
    better to have get_mem_cgroup_from_mm more robust.
    
    [1] - http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139463617808941&w=2
    
    Fixes: 03583f1a
    
     ("memcg: remove unnecessary !mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()")
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarStephan Kulow <coolo@suse.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarBranimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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