Patch "uprobes: Fix the memcg accounting" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "uprobes: Fix the memcg accounting" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    uprobes: Fix the memcg accounting

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:
     uprobes-fix-the-memcg-accounting.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 6c4687cc17a788a6dd8de3e27dbeabb7cbd3e066 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:36:29 +0200
Subject: uprobes: Fix the memcg accounting

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit 6c4687cc17a788a6dd8de3e27dbeabb7cbd3e066 upstream.

__replace_page() wronlgy calls mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() in "success" path,
it should only do this if page_check_address() fails.

This means that every enable/disable leads to unbalanced mem_cgroup_uncharge()
from put_page(old_page), it is trivial to underflow the page_counter->count
and trigger OOM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Fixes: 00501b531c47 ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160817153629.GB29724@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -171,8 +171,10 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 	err = -EAGAIN;
 	ptep = page_check_address(page, mm, addr, &ptl, 0);
-	if (!ptep)
+	if (!ptep) {
+		mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(kpage, memcg);
 		goto unlock;
+	}
 
 	get_page(kpage);
 	page_add_new_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr);
@@ -199,7 +201,6 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area
 
 	err = 0;
  unlock:
-	mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(kpage, memcg);
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 	unlock_page(page);
 	return err;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/uprobes-fix-the-memcg-accounting.patch
queue-4.4/cgroup-reduce-read-locked-section-of-cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem-during-fork.patch