Re: mm: mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer on i386 - pagecache_get_page

Johannes Weiner
2020-05-21T21:58:55Z

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 01:06:28PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > do_memsw_account() used to be automatically false when the cgroup
> > controller was disabled. Now that it's replaced by
> > cgroup_memory_noswap, for which this isn't true, make the
> > mem_cgroup_disabled() checks explicit in the swap control API.
> >
> > [hannes@cmpxchg.org: use mem_cgroup_disabled() in all API functions]
> > Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> > Debugged-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> > Debugged-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > ---
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> I'm certainly not against a mem_cgroup_disabled() check in the only
> place that's been observed to need it, as a fixup to merge into your
> original patch; but this seems rather an over-reaction - and I'm a
> little surprised that setting mem_cgroup_disabled() doesn't just
> force cgroup_memory_noswap, saving repetitious checks elsewhere
> (perhaps there's a difficulty in that, I haven't looked).

Fair enough, I changed it to set the flag at initialization time if
mem_cgroup_disabled(). I was never a fan of the old flags, where it
was never clear what was commandline, and what was internal runtime
state - do_swap_account? really_do_swap_account? But I think it's
straight-forward in this case now.

> Historically, I think we've added mem_cgroup_disabled() checks
> (accessing a cacheline we'd rather avoid) where they're necessary,
> rather than at every "interface".

To me that always seemed like bugs waiting to happen. Like this one!

It's a jump label nowadays, so I've been liberal with these to avoid
subtle bugs.

> And you seem to be in a very "goto out" mood today - we all have
> our "goto out" days, alternating with our "return 0" days :)

:-)

But I agree, best to keep this fixup self-contained and defer anything
else to separate cleanup patches.

How about the below? It survives a swaptest with cgroup_disable=memory
for me.

Hugh, I started with your patch, which is why I kept you as the
author, but as the patch now (and arguably the previous one) is
sufficiently different, I dropped that now. I hope that's okay.

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From d9e7ed15d1c9248a3fd99e35e82437549154dac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 17:44:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: prepare swap controller setup for integration
fix

Fix crash with cgroup_disable=memory:

> > > > + mkfs -t ext4 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MG04ACA100N_Y8NRK0BPF6XF
> > > > mke2fs 1.43.8 (1-Jan-2018)
> > > > Creating filesystem with 244190646 4k blocks and 61054976 inodes
> > > > Filesystem UUID: 3bb1a285-2cb4-44b4-b6e8-62548f3ac620
> > > > Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> > > > 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
> > > > 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
> > > > 102400000, 214990848
> > > > Allocating group tables: 0/7453 done
> > > > Writing inode tables: 0/7453 done
> > > > Creating journal (262144 blocks): [ 35.502102] BUG: kernel NULL
> > > > pointer dereference, address: 000000c8
> > > > [ 35.508372] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> > > > [ 35.513506] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> > > > [ 35.518638] *pde = 00000000
> > > > [ 35.521514] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > > > [ 35.524652] CPU: 0 PID: 145 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted
> > > > 5.7.0-rc6-next-20200519+ #1
> > > > [ 35.532121] Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-5019S-ML/X11SSH-F, BIOS
> > > > 2.2 05/23/2018
> > > > [ 35.539507] EIP: mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages+0x28/0x60

Swap accounting used to be implied-disabled when the cgroup controller
was disabled. Restore that for the new cgroup_memory_noswap, so that
we bail out of this function instead of dereferencing a NULL memcg.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Debugged-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Debugged-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3e000a316b59..e3b785d6e771 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -7075,7 +7075,11 @@ static struct cftype memsw_files[] = {

static int __init mem_cgroup_swap_init(void)
{
- if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || cgroup_memory_noswap)
+ /* No memory control -> no swap control */
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+ cgroup_memory_noswap = true;
+
+ if (cgroup_memory_noswap)
return 0;

WARN_ON(cgroup_add_dfl_cftypes(&memory_cgrp_subsys, swap_files));
--
2.26.2