Patch "mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr in count_shadow_nodes" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr in count_shadow_nodes

to the 4.8-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-workingset-fix-null-ptr-in-count_shadow_nodes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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 20ab67a563f5299c09a234164c372aba5a59add8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 17:26:45 -0800
Subject: mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr in count_shadow_nodes
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

commit 20ab67a563f5299c09a234164c372aba5a59add8 upstream.

Commit 0a6b76dd23fa ("mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg
aware") has made the workingset shadow nodes shrinker memcg aware.  The
implementation is not correct though because memcg_kmem_enabled() might
become true while we are doing a global reclaim when the sc->memcg might
be NULL which is exactly what Marek has seen:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000400
  IP: [<ffffffff8122d520>] mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages+0x20/0x40
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 0 PID: 60 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G           O   4.8.10-12.pvops.qubes.x86_64 #1
  task: ffff880011863b00 task.stack: ffff880011868000
  RIP: mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages+0x20/0x40
  RSP: e02b:ffff88001186bc70  EFLAGS: 00010293
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001186bd20 RCX: 0000000000000002
  RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
  RBP: ffff88001186bc70 R08: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000006c34 R11: 0000000000000333 R12: 00000000000001f6
  R13: ffffffff81c6f6a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880013c00000(0000) knlGS:ffff880013d00000
  CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000400 CR3: 00000000122f2000 CR4: 0000000000042660
  Call Trace:
    count_shadow_nodes+0x9a/0xa0
    shrink_slab.part.42+0x119/0x3e0
    shrink_node+0x22c/0x320
    kswapd+0x32c/0x700
    kthread+0xd8/0xf0
    ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
  Code: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 3b 35 dd eb b1 00 55 48 89 e5 73 2c 89 d2 31 c9 31 c0 4c 63 ce 48 0f a3 ca 73 13 <4a> 8b b4 cf 00 04 00 00 41 89 c8 4a 03 84 c6 80 00 00 00 83 c1
  RIP  mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages+0x20/0x40
   RSP <ffff88001186bc70>
  CR2: 0000000000000400
  ---[ end trace 100494b9edbdfc4d ]---

This patch fixes the issue by checking sc->memcg rather than
memcg_kmem_enabled() which is sufficient because shrink_slab makes sure
that only memcg aware shrinkers will get non-NULL memcgs and only if
memcg_kmem_enabled is true.

Fixes: 0a6b76dd23fa ("mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161201132156.21450-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl>
Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.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/workingset.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static unsigned long count_shadow_nodes(
 	shadow_nodes = list_lru_shrink_count(&workingset_shadow_nodes, sc);
 	local_irq_enable();
 
-	if (memcg_kmem_enabled()) {
+	if (sc->memcg) {
 		pages = mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages(sc->memcg, sc->nid,
 						     LRU_ALL_FILE);
 	} else {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhocko@suse.com are

queue-4.8/mm-workingset-fix-null-ptr-in-count_shadow_nodes.patch