Patch "mm/oom_kill.c: reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/oom_kill.c: reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL

to the 4.3-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-oom_kill.c-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 426fb5e72d92b868912e47a1e3ca2df6eabc3872 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:47:44 -0800
Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL

From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>

commit 426fb5e72d92b868912e47a1e3ca2df6eabc3872 upstream.

It was confirmed that a local unprivileged user can consume all memory
reserves and hang up that system using time lag between the OOM killer
sets TIF_MEMDIE on an OOM victim and sends SIGKILL to that victim, for
printk() inside for_each_process() loop at oom_kill_process() can consume
many seconds when there are many thread groups sharing the same memory.

Before starting oom-depleter process:

    Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB (UM) 6*8kB (U) 4*16kB (UEM) 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB (M) 2*256kB (EM) 2*512kB (UE) 2*1024kB (EM) 1*2048kB (E) 1*4096kB (M) = 9980kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 31*4kB (UEM) 27*8kB (UE) 32*16kB (UE) 13*32kB (UE) 14*64kB (UM) 7*128kB (UM) 8*256kB (UM) 8*512kB (UM) 3*1024kB (U) 4*2048kB (UM) 362*4096kB (UM) = 1503220kB

As of invoking the OOM killer:

    Node 0 DMA: 11*4kB (UE) 8*8kB (UEM) 6*16kB (UE) 2*32kB (EM) 0*64kB 1*128kB (U) 3*256kB (UEM) 2*512kB (UE) 3*1024kB (UEM) 1*2048kB (U) 0*4096kB = 7308kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 1049*4kB (UEM) 507*8kB (UE) 151*16kB (UE) 53*32kB (UEM) 83*64kB (UEM) 52*128kB (EM) 25*256kB (UEM) 11*512kB (M) 6*1024kB (UM) 1*2048kB (M) 0*4096kB = 44556kB

Between the thread group leader got TIF_MEMDIE and receives SIGKILL:

    Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB

The oom-depleter's thread group leader which got TIF_MEMDIE started
memset() in user space after the OOM killer set TIF_MEMDIE, and it was
free to abuse ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS by TIF_MEMDIE for memset() in user space
until SIGKILL is delivered.  If SIGKILL is delivered before TIF_MEMDIE is
set, the oom-depleter can terminate without touching memory reserves.

Although the possibility of hitting this time lag is very small for 3.19
and earlier kernels because TIF_MEMDIE is set immediately before sending
SIGKILL, preemption or long interrupts (an extreme example is SysRq-t) can
step between and allow memory allocations which are not needed for
terminating the OOM victim.

Fixes: 83363b917a29 ("oom: make sure that TIF_MEMDIE is set under task_lock")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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>

---
 mm/oom_kill.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -554,6 +554,12 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control
 
 	/* mm cannot safely be dereferenced after task_unlock(victim) */
 	mm = victim->mm;
+	/*
+	 * We should send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE in order to prevent
+	 * the OOM victim from depleting the memory reserves from the user
+	 * space under its control.
+	 */
+	do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, victim, true);
 	mark_oom_victim(victim);
 	pr_err("Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB\n",
 		task_pid_nr(victim), victim->comm, K(victim->mm->total_vm),
@@ -585,7 +591,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control
 		}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
-	do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, victim, true);
 	put_task_struct(victim);
 }
 #undef K


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp are

queue-4.3/mm-oom_kill.c-reverse-the-order-of-setting-tif_memdie-and-sending-sigkill.patch