Patch "hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages

to the 4.4-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:
     hwpoison-memcg-forcibly-uncharge-lru-pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 18365225f0440d09708ad9daade2ec11275c3df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:46:26 -0700
Subject: hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

commit 18365225f0440d09708ad9daade2ec11275c3df9 upstream.

Laurent Dufour has noticed that hwpoinsoned pages are kept charged.  In
his particular case he has hit a bad_page("page still charged to
cgroup") when onlining a hwpoison page.  While this looks like something
that shouldn't happen in the first place because onlining hwpages and
returning them to the page allocator makes only little sense it shows a
real problem.

hwpoison pages do not get freed usually so we do not uncharge them (at
least not since commit 0a31bc97c80c ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge
API")).  Each charge pins memcg (since e8ea14cc6ead ("mm: memcontrol:
take a css reference for each charged page")) as well and so the
mem_cgroup and the associated state will never go away.  Fix this leak
by forcibly uncharging a LRU hwpoisoned page in delete_from_lru_cache().
We also have to tweak uncharge_list because it cannot rely on zero ref
count for these pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 0a31bc97c80c ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170502185507.GB19165@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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/memcontrol.c     |    2 +-
 mm/memory-failure.c |    7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5576,7 +5576,7 @@ static void uncharge_list(struct list_he
 		next = page->lru.next;
 
 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
+		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHWPoison(page) && page_count(page), page);
 
 		if (!page->mem_cgroup)
 			continue;
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -539,6 +539,13 @@ static int delete_from_lru_cache(struct
 		 */
 		ClearPageActive(p);
 		ClearPageUnevictable(p);
+
+		/*
+		 * Poisoned page might never drop its ref count to 0 so we have
+		 * to uncharge it manually from its memcg.
+		 */
+		mem_cgroup_uncharge(p);
+
 		/*
 		 * drop the page count elevated by isolate_lru_page()
 		 */


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

queue-4.4/fs-select-add-vmalloc-fallback-for-select-2.patch
queue-4.4/hwpoison-memcg-forcibly-uncharge-lru-pages.patch
queue-4.4/mm-mmap.c-do-not-blow-on-prot_none-map_fixed-holes-in-the-stack.patch