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Vasily Averin d6648b55ed mm, oom: pagefault_out_of_memory: don't force global OOM for dying tasks
commit 0b28179a6138a5edd9d82ad2687c05b3773c387b upstream.

Patch series "memcg: prohibit unconditional exceeding the limit of dying tasks", v3.

Memory cgroup charging allows killed or exiting tasks to exceed the hard
limit.  It can be misused and allowed to trigger global OOM from inside
a memcg-limited container.  On the other hand if memcg fails allocation,
called from inside #PF handler it triggers global OOM from inside
pagefault_out_of_memory().

To prevent these problems this patchset:
 (a) removes execution of out_of_memory() from
     pagefault_out_of_memory(), becasue nobody can explain why it is
     necessary.
 (b) allow memcg to fail allocation of dying/killed tasks.

This patch (of 3):

Any allocation failure during the #PF path will return with VM_FAULT_OOM
which in turn results in pagefault_out_of_memory which in turn executes
out_out_memory() and can kill a random task.

An allocation might fail when the current task is the oom victim and
there are no memory reserves left.  The OOM killer is already handled at
the page allocator level for the global OOM and at the charging level
for the memcg one.  Both have much more information about the scope of
allocation/charge request.  This means that either the OOM killer has
been invoked properly and didn't lead to the allocation success or it
has been skipped because it couldn't have been invoked.  In both cases
triggering it from here is pointless and even harmful.

It makes much more sense to let the killed task die rather than to wake
up an eternally hungry oom-killer and send him to choose a fatter victim
for breakfast.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0828a149-786e-7c06-b70a-52d086818ea3@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-11-17 09:48:50 +01:00
arch powerpc/bpf: Emit stf barrier instruction sequences for BPF_NOSPEC 2021-11-17 09:48:49 +01:00
block block: remove inaccurate requeue check 2021-11-17 09:48:31 +01:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Delay write to padata->info 2021-11-17 09:48:40 +01:00
Documentation xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
drivers irqchip/sifive-plic: Fixup EOI failed when masked 2021-11-17 09:48:49 +01:00
fs ovl: fix deadlock in splice write 2021-11-17 09:48:49 +01:00
include net, neigh: Enable state migration between NUD_PERMANENT and NTF_USE 2021-11-17 09:48:49 +01:00
init
ipc
kernel PM: hibernate: fix sparse warnings 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
lib lib/xz: Validate the value before assigning it to an enum variable 2021-11-17 09:48:31 +01:00
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mm mm, oom: pagefault_out_of_memory: don't force global OOM for dying tasks 2021-11-17 09:48:50 +01:00
net 9p/net: fix missing error check in p9_check_errors 2021-11-17 09:48:49 +01:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts leaking_addresses: Always print a trailing newline 2021-11-17 09:48:31 +01:00
security apparmor: fix error check 2021-11-17 09:48:44 +01:00
sound ASoC: cs42l42: Defer probe if request_threaded_irq() returns EPROBE_DEFER 2021-11-17 09:48:43 +01:00
tools selftests/net: udpgso_bench_rx: fix port argument 2021-11-17 09:48:48 +01:00
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virt KVM: do not shrink halt_poll_ns below grow_start 2021-10-09 14:39:50 +02:00
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