[PATCH 4.19 53/74] mm: vmscan: check if mem cgroup is disabled or not before calling memcg slab shrinker

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-05T13:20:16Z

From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>

commit fa1e512fac717f34e7c12d7a384c46e90a647392 upstream.

Shakeel Butt reported premature oom on kernel with
"cgroup_disable=memory" since mem_cgroup_is_root() returns false even
though memcg is actually NULL. The drop_caches is also broken.

It is because commit aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize
shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()") removed the !memcg check before
!mem_cgroup_is_root(). And, surprisingly root memcg is allocated even
though memory cgroup is disabled by kernel boot parameter.

Add mem_cgroup_disabled() check to make reclaimer work as expected.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563385526-20805-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jan Hadrava <had@kam.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.19+]
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/vmscan.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -670,7 +670,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t g
unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
struct shrinker *shrinker;

- if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
+ /*
+ * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled
+ * via "cgroup_disable=memory" boot parameter. This could make
+ * mem_cgroup_is_root() return false, then just run memcg slab
+ * shrink, but skip global shrink. This may result in premature
+ * oom.
+ */
+ if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority);

if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))