From: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
To: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Cc: bot+bpf-ci@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
surenb@google.com, mhocko@kernel.org, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, andrii@kernel.org, inwardvessel@gmail.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, martin.lau@kernel.org, song@kernel.org,
memxor@gmail.com, tj@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
eddyz87@gmail.com, yonghong.song@linux.dev,
ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/23] mm: allow specifying custom oom constraint for BPF triggers
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:20:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v7jz3smj.fsf@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1d4d200-5a35-4990-8499-6dc7ea6d65ac@meta.com> (Chris Mason's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:58:50 -0400")
Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> writes:
> On 10/27/25 7:48 PM, bot+bpf-ci@kernel.org wrote:
>>> @@ -1350,11 +1367,14 @@ __bpf_kfunc int bpf_oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc,
>>> * Returns a negative value if an error occurred.
>>> */
>>> __bpf_kfunc int bpf_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg__nullable,
>>> - int order, u64 flags)
>>> + int order, u64 flags,
>>> + const char *constraint_text__nullable)
>>> {
>>> struct oom_control oc = {
>>> .memcg = memcg__nullable,
>>> .order = order,
>>> + .constraint = CONSTRAINT_BPF,
>>> + .bpf_constraint = constraint_text__nullable,
>>> };
>>> int ret;
>>
>> When CONSTRAINT_BPF is set in bpf_out_of_memory(), the early return in
>> constrained_alloc() prevents oc->totalpages from being initialized. This
>> leaves totalpages at zero (from the designated initializer).
>>
>> Later in the call chain out_of_memory()->select_bad_process()->
>> oom_evaluate_task()->oom_badness(), the code performs division by
>> totalpages at line 237:
>>
>> adj *= totalpages / 1000;
>>
>> Can this cause a division by zero? The path is reachable when a BPF
>> program calls bpf_out_of_memory() and either no BPF OOM handler is
>> registered or the handler fails to free memory, causing execution to fall
>> through to select_bad_process().
>
> Looks like the AI got a little excited about finding the uninit variable
> chain and forgot what dividing by zero really means. I'll add a false
> positive check for this.
Yup, it was *almost* correct :)
But overall I'm really impressed: it found few legit bugs as well.
The only thing: I wish I could run it privately before posting to
public mailing lists...
Thanks,
Chris!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-28 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-27 23:21 [PATCH v2 11/23] mm: introduce BPF kfunc to access memory events Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:21 ` [PATCH v2 12/23] bpf: selftests: selftests for memcg stat kfuncs Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:21 ` [PATCH v2 13/23] mm: introduce bpf_out_of_memory() BPF kfunc Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:57 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-10-28 16:43 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-11-10 9:46 ` Michal Hocko
2025-11-11 19:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-11-12 7:50 ` Michal Hocko
2025-10-27 23:21 ` [PATCH v2 14/23] mm: allow specifying custom oom constraint for BPF triggers Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:48 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-10-28 15:58 ` Chris Mason
2025-10-28 16:20 ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2025-10-28 16:35 ` Chris Mason
2025-11-10 9:31 ` Michal Hocko
2025-11-11 19:17 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-11-12 7:52 ` Michal Hocko
2025-10-27 23:21 ` [PATCH v2 15/23] mm: introduce bpf_task_is_oom_victim() kfunc Roman Gushchin
2025-10-28 17:32 ` Tejun Heo
2025-10-28 18:09 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-10-28 18:31 ` Tejun Heo
2025-10-27 23:21 ` [PATCH v2 16/23] libbpf: introduce bpf_map__attach_struct_ops_opts() Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:48 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-10-28 17:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-10-28 17:24 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 17/23] bpf: selftests: introduce read_cgroup_file() helper Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:48 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-10-28 16:31 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 18/23] bpf: selftests: BPF OOM handler test Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 19/23] sched: psi: refactor psi_trigger_create() Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 20/23] sched: psi: implement bpf_psi struct ops Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:48 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-10-28 17:40 ` Tejun Heo
2025-10-28 18:29 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-10-28 18:35 ` Tejun Heo
2025-10-28 19:54 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 21/23] sched: psi: implement bpf_psi_create_trigger() kfunc Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 22/23] bpf: selftests: add config for psi Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 23/23] bpf: selftests: PSI struct ops test Roman Gushchin
2025-10-27 23:48 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-10-28 17:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-10-28 17:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-11-10 9:48 ` Michal Hocko
2025-11-11 19:03 ` Roman Gushchin
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