Re: WARNING in try_charge

Tetsuo Handa
2018-08-06T10:47:06Z

On 2018/08/06 19:39, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>> Btw. running with the above diff on top might help us to ideantify
>> whether this is a pre-mature warning or a valid one. Still useful to
>> find out.

Since syzbot already found a syz reproducer, you can ask syzbot to test it.

>
> The bug report has a reproducer, so you can run it with the patch. Or
> ask syzbot to test your patch:
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#testing-patches
> Which basically boils down to saying:
>
> #syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> master

Excuse me, but this is linux-next only problem. Therefore,

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4603ad75c9a9..852cd3dbdcd9 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1388,6 +1388,8 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
bool ret;

mutex_lock(&oom_lock);
+ pr_info("task=%s pid=%d invoked memcg oom killer. oom_victim=%d\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid, tsk_is_oom_victim(current));
ret = out_of_memory(&oc);
mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
return ret;

F.Y.I. Waiting until __mmput() completes (with timeout using OOM score feedback)
( https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=101e449c400000 ) solves this race.