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<title>mm, vmstat: fix wrong WQ sleep when memory reclaim doesn't make any progress</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp</email>
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<published>2016-02-05T23:36:30+00:00</published>
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commit 564e81a57f9788b1475127012e0fd44e9049e342 upstream.

Jan Stancek has reported that system occasionally hanging after "oom01"
testcase from LTP triggers OOM.  Guessing from a result that there is a
kworker thread doing memory allocation and the values between "Node 0
Normal free:" and "Node 0 Normal:" differs when hanging, vmstat is not
up-to-date for some reason.

According to commit 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to
discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress"), it meant to force
the kworker thread to take a short sleep, but it by error used
schedule_timeout(1).  We missed that schedule_timeout() in state
TASK_RUNNING doesn't do anything.

Fix it by using schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) which forces the
kworker thread to take a short sleep in order to make sure that vmstat
is up-to-date.

Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cristopher Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz &lt;arekm@maven.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 564e81a57f9788b1475127012e0fd44e9049e342 upstream.

Jan Stancek has reported that system occasionally hanging after "oom01"
testcase from LTP triggers OOM.  Guessing from a result that there is a
kworker thread doing memory allocation and the values between "Node 0
Normal free:" and "Node 0 Normal:" differs when hanging, vmstat is not
up-to-date for some reason.

According to commit 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to
discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress"), it meant to force
the kworker thread to take a short sleep, but it by error used
schedule_timeout(1).  We missed that schedule_timeout() in state
TASK_RUNNING doesn't do anything.

Fix it by using schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) which forces the
kworker thread to take a short sleep in order to make sure that vmstat
is up-to-date.

Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cristopher Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz &lt;arekm@maven.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>zsmalloc: fix migrate_zspage-zs_free race condition</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junil Lee</name>
<email>junil0814.lee@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-20T22:58:18+00:00</published>
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commit c102f07ca0b04f2cb49cfc161c83f6239d17f491 upstream.

record_obj() in migrate_zspage() does not preserve handle's
HANDLE_PIN_BIT, set by find_aloced_obj()-&gt;trypin_tag(), and implicitly
(accidentally) un-pins the handle, while migrate_zspage() still performs
an explicit unpin_tag() on the that handle.  This additional explicit
unpin_tag() introduces a race condition with zs_free(), which can pin
that handle by this time, so the handle becomes un-pinned.

Schematically, it goes like this:

  CPU0                                        CPU1
  migrate_zspage
    find_alloced_obj
      trypin_tag
        set HANDLE_PIN_BIT                    zs_free()
                                                pin_tag()
  obj_malloc() -- new object, no tag
  record_obj() -- remove HANDLE_PIN_BIT           set HANDLE_PIN_BIT
  unpin_tag()  -- remove zs_free's HANDLE_PIN_BIT

The race condition may result in a NULL pointer dereference:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  CPU: 0 PID: 19001 Comm: CookieMonsterCl Tainted:
  PC is at get_zspage_mapping+0x0/0x24
  LR is at obj_free.isra.22+0x64/0x128
  Call trace:
     get_zspage_mapping+0x0/0x24
     zs_free+0x88/0x114
     zram_free_page+0x64/0xcc
     zram_slot_free_notify+0x90/0x108
     swap_entry_free+0x278/0x294
     free_swap_and_cache+0x38/0x11c
     unmap_single_vma+0x480/0x5c8
     unmap_vmas+0x44/0x60
     exit_mmap+0x50/0x110
     mmput+0x58/0xe0
     do_exit+0x320/0x8dc
     do_group_exit+0x44/0xa8
     get_signal+0x538/0x580
     do_signal+0x98/0x4b8
     do_notify_resume+0x14/0x5c

This patch keeps the lock bit in migration path and update value
atomically.

Signed-off-by: Junil Lee &lt;junil0814.lee@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c102f07ca0b04f2cb49cfc161c83f6239d17f491 upstream.

record_obj() in migrate_zspage() does not preserve handle's
HANDLE_PIN_BIT, set by find_aloced_obj()-&gt;trypin_tag(), and implicitly
(accidentally) un-pins the handle, while migrate_zspage() still performs
an explicit unpin_tag() on the that handle.  This additional explicit
unpin_tag() introduces a race condition with zs_free(), which can pin
that handle by this time, so the handle becomes un-pinned.

Schematically, it goes like this:

  CPU0                                        CPU1
  migrate_zspage
    find_alloced_obj
      trypin_tag
        set HANDLE_PIN_BIT                    zs_free()
                                                pin_tag()
  obj_malloc() -- new object, no tag
  record_obj() -- remove HANDLE_PIN_BIT           set HANDLE_PIN_BIT
  unpin_tag()  -- remove zs_free's HANDLE_PIN_BIT

The race condition may result in a NULL pointer dereference:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  CPU: 0 PID: 19001 Comm: CookieMonsterCl Tainted:
  PC is at get_zspage_mapping+0x0/0x24
  LR is at obj_free.isra.22+0x64/0x128
  Call trace:
     get_zspage_mapping+0x0/0x24
     zs_free+0x88/0x114
     zram_free_page+0x64/0xcc
     zram_slot_free_notify+0x90/0x108
     swap_entry_free+0x278/0x294
     free_swap_and_cache+0x38/0x11c
     unmap_single_vma+0x480/0x5c8
     unmap_vmas+0x44/0x60
     exit_mmap+0x50/0x110
     mmput+0x58/0xe0
     do_exit+0x320/0x8dc
     do_group_exit+0x44/0xa8
     get_signal+0x538/0x580
     do_signal+0x98/0x4b8
     do_notify_resume+0x14/0x5c

This patch keeps the lock bit in migration path and update value
atomically.

Signed-off-by: Junil Lee &lt;junil0814.lee@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: fix possible memcg leak due to interrupted reclaim</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-29T22:54:10+00:00</published>
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commit 6df38689e0e9a07ff4f42c06b302e203b33667e9 upstream.

Memory cgroup reclaim can be interrupted with mem_cgroup_iter_break()
once enough pages have been reclaimed, in which case, in contrast to a
full round-trip over a cgroup sub-tree, the current position stored in
mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter of the target cgroup does not get invalidated
and so is left holding the reference to the last scanned cgroup.  If the
target cgroup does not get scanned again (we might have just reclaimed
the last page or all processes might exit and free their memory
voluntary), we will leak it, because there is nobody to put the
reference held by the iterator.

The problem is easy to reproduce by running the following command
sequence in a loop:

    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
    echo 100M &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
    echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/cgroup.procs
    memhog 150M
    echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cgroup.procs
    rmdir test

The cgroups generated by it will never get freed.

This patch fixes this issue by making mem_cgroup_iter avoid taking
reference to the current position.  In order not to hit use-after-free
bug while running reclaim in parallel with cgroup deletion, we make use
of -&gt;css_released cgroup callback to clear references to the dying
cgroup in all reclaim iterators that might refer to it.  This callback
is called right before scheduling rcu work which will free css, so if we
access iter-&gt;position from rcu read section, we might be sure it won't
go away under us.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: clean up css ref handling]
Fixes: 5ac8fb31ad2e ("mm: memcontrol: convert reclaim iterator to simple css refcounting")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6df38689e0e9a07ff4f42c06b302e203b33667e9 upstream.

Memory cgroup reclaim can be interrupted with mem_cgroup_iter_break()
once enough pages have been reclaimed, in which case, in contrast to a
full round-trip over a cgroup sub-tree, the current position stored in
mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter of the target cgroup does not get invalidated
and so is left holding the reference to the last scanned cgroup.  If the
target cgroup does not get scanned again (we might have just reclaimed
the last page or all processes might exit and free their memory
voluntary), we will leak it, because there is nobody to put the
reference held by the iterator.

The problem is easy to reproduce by running the following command
sequence in a loop:

    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
    echo 100M &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
    echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/cgroup.procs
    memhog 150M
    echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cgroup.procs
    rmdir test

The cgroups generated by it will never get freed.

This patch fixes this issue by making mem_cgroup_iter avoid taking
reference to the current position.  In order not to hit use-after-free
bug while running reclaim in parallel with cgroup deletion, we make use
of -&gt;css_released cgroup callback to clear references to the dying
cgroup in all reclaim iterators that might refer to it.  This callback
is called right before scheduling rcu work which will free css, so if we
access iter-&gt;position from rcu read section, we might be sure it won't
go away under us.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: clean up css ref handling]
Fixes: 5ac8fb31ad2e ("mm: memcontrol: convert reclaim iterator to simple css refcounting")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb.c: fix resv map memory leak for placeholder entries</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Kravetz</name>
<email>mike.kravetz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-11T21:40:52+00:00</published>
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commit dbe409e4f5e5075bd9ff7f8dd5c627abf3ee38c1 upstream.

Dmitry Vyukov reported the following memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff88002eaafd88 (size 32):
  comm "a.out", pid 5063, jiffies 4295774645 (age 15.810s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff 28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff  (.Nc....(.Nc....
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
     kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:458
     region_chg+0x2d4/0x6b0 mm/hugetlb.c:398
     __vma_reservation_common+0x2c3/0x390 mm/hugetlb.c:1791
     vma_needs_reservation mm/hugetlb.c:1813
     alloc_huge_page+0x19e/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:1845
     hugetlb_no_page mm/hugetlb.c:3543
     hugetlb_fault+0x7a1/0x1250 mm/hugetlb.c:3717
     follow_hugetlb_page+0x339/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:3880
     __get_user_pages+0x542/0xf30 mm/gup.c:497
     populate_vma_page_range+0xde/0x110 mm/gup.c:919
     __mm_populate+0x1c7/0x310 mm/gup.c:969
     do_mlock+0x291/0x360 mm/mlock.c:637
     SYSC_mlock2 mm/mlock.c:658
     SyS_mlock2+0x4b/0x70 mm/mlock.c:648

Dmitry identified a potential memory leak in the routine region_chg,
where a region descriptor is not free'ed on an error path.

However, the root cause for the above memory leak resides in region_del.
In this specific case, a "placeholder" entry is created in region_chg.
The associated page allocation fails, and the placeholder entry is left
in the reserve map.  This is "by design" as the entry should be deleted
when the map is released.  The bug is in the region_del routine which is
used to delete entries within a specific range (and when the map is
released).  region_del did not handle the case where a placeholder entry
exactly matched the start of the range range to be deleted.  In this
case, the entry would not be deleted and leaked.  The fix is to take
these special placeholder entries into account in region_del.

The region_chg error path leak is also fixed.

Fixes: feba16e25a57 ("mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dbe409e4f5e5075bd9ff7f8dd5c627abf3ee38c1 upstream.

Dmitry Vyukov reported the following memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff88002eaafd88 (size 32):
  comm "a.out", pid 5063, jiffies 4295774645 (age 15.810s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff 28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff  (.Nc....(.Nc....
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
     kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:458
     region_chg+0x2d4/0x6b0 mm/hugetlb.c:398
     __vma_reservation_common+0x2c3/0x390 mm/hugetlb.c:1791
     vma_needs_reservation mm/hugetlb.c:1813
     alloc_huge_page+0x19e/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:1845
     hugetlb_no_page mm/hugetlb.c:3543
     hugetlb_fault+0x7a1/0x1250 mm/hugetlb.c:3717
     follow_hugetlb_page+0x339/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:3880
     __get_user_pages+0x542/0xf30 mm/gup.c:497
     populate_vma_page_range+0xde/0x110 mm/gup.c:919
     __mm_populate+0x1c7/0x310 mm/gup.c:969
     do_mlock+0x291/0x360 mm/mlock.c:637
     SYSC_mlock2 mm/mlock.c:658
     SyS_mlock2+0x4b/0x70 mm/mlock.c:648

Dmitry identified a potential memory leak in the routine region_chg,
where a region descriptor is not free'ed on an error path.

However, the root cause for the above memory leak resides in region_del.
In this specific case, a "placeholder" entry is created in region_chg.
The associated page allocation fails, and the placeholder entry is left
in the reserve map.  This is "by design" as the entry should be deleted
when the map is released.  The bug is in the region_del routine which is
used to delete entries within a specific range (and when the map is
released).  region_del did not handle the case where a placeholder entry
exactly matched the start of the range range to be deleted.  In this
case, the entry would not be deleted and leaked.  The fix is to take
these special placeholder entries into account in region_del.

The region_chg error path leak is also fixed.

Fixes: feba16e25a57 ("mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-11T21:40:49+00:00</published>
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commit 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 upstream.

Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or
not.  And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc().  This is racy
because the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the
huge_pte_offset() check.  This race results in BUG_ON in
huge_pte_alloc().

We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset()
returns non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else
block.

Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after
this block, but that's not a problem because we have another
!pte_present check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that
case.)

Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 upstream.

Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or
not.  And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc().  This is racy
because the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the
huge_pte_offset() check.  This race results in BUG_ON in
huge_pte_alloc().

We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset()
returns non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else
block.

Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after
this block, but that's not a problem because we have another
!pte_present check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that
case.)

Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-11T21:40:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=16c61891361c8beca41cc5339689126b127ef57a'/>
<id>16c61891361c8beca41cc5339689126b127ef57a</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 373ccbe5927034b55bdc80b0f8b54d6e13fe8d12 upstream.

Tetsuo Handa has reported that the system might basically livelock in
OOM condition without triggering the OOM killer.

The issue is caused by internal dependency of the direct reclaim on
vmstat counter updates (via zone_reclaimable) which are performed from
the workqueue context.  If all the current workers get assigned to an
allocation request, though, they will be looping inside the allocator
trying to reclaim memory but zone_reclaimable can see stalled numbers so
it will consider a zone reclaimable even though it has been scanned way
too much.  WQ concurrency logic will not consider this situation as a
congested workqueue because it relies that worker would have to sleep in
such a situation.  This also means that it doesn't try to spawn new
workers or invoke the rescuer thread if the one is assigned to the
queue.

In order to fix this issue we need to do two things.  First we have to
let wq concurrency code know that we are in trouble so we have to do a
short sleep.  In order to prevent from issues handled by 0e093d99763e
("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no
congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in
the current zone") we limit the sleep only to worker threads which are
the ones of the interest anyway.

The second thing to do is to create a dedicated workqueue for vmstat and
mark it WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to note it participates in the reclaim and to
have a spare worker thread for it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cristopher Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz &lt;arekm@maven.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<pre>
commit 373ccbe5927034b55bdc80b0f8b54d6e13fe8d12 upstream.

Tetsuo Handa has reported that the system might basically livelock in
OOM condition without triggering the OOM killer.

The issue is caused by internal dependency of the direct reclaim on
vmstat counter updates (via zone_reclaimable) which are performed from
the workqueue context.  If all the current workers get assigned to an
allocation request, though, they will be looping inside the allocator
trying to reclaim memory but zone_reclaimable can see stalled numbers so
it will consider a zone reclaimable even though it has been scanned way
too much.  WQ concurrency logic will not consider this situation as a
congested workqueue because it relies that worker would have to sleep in
such a situation.  This also means that it doesn't try to spawn new
workers or invoke the rescuer thread if the one is assigned to the
queue.

In order to fix this issue we need to do two things.  First we have to
let wq concurrency code know that we are in trouble so we have to do a
short sleep.  In order to prevent from issues handled by 0e093d99763e
("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no
congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in
the current zone") we limit the sleep only to worker threads which are
the ones of the interest anyway.

The second thing to do is to create a dedicated workqueue for vmstat and
mark it WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to note it participates in the reclaim and to
have a spare worker thread for it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cristopher Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz &lt;arekm@maven.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak caused by wrong reserve count</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-11T21:40:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3f5fae4d1a3189d95b02b4b45e1218df147122bc'/>
<id>3f5fae4d1a3189d95b02b4b45e1218df147122bc</id>
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commit a88c769548047b21f76fd71e04b6a3300ff17160 upstream.

When dequeue_huge_page_vma() in alloc_huge_page() fails, we fall back on
alloc_buddy_huge_page() to directly create a hugepage from the buddy
allocator.

In that case, however, if alloc_buddy_huge_page() succeeds we don't
decrement h-&gt;resv_huge_pages, which means that successful
hugetlb_fault() returns without releasing the reserve count.  As a
result, subsequent hugetlb_fault() might fail despite that there are
still free hugepages.

This patch simply adds decrementing code on that code path.

I reproduced this problem when testing v4.3 kernel in the following situation:
 - the test machine/VM is a NUMA system,
 - hugepage overcommiting is enabled,
 - most of hugepages are allocated and there's only one free hugepage
   which is on node 0 (for example),
 - another program, which calls set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND) to bind itself to
   node 1, tries to allocate a hugepage,
 - the allocation should fail but the reserve count is still hold.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a88c769548047b21f76fd71e04b6a3300ff17160 upstream.

When dequeue_huge_page_vma() in alloc_huge_page() fails, we fall back on
alloc_buddy_huge_page() to directly create a hugepage from the buddy
allocator.

In that case, however, if alloc_buddy_huge_page() succeeds we don't
decrement h-&gt;resv_huge_pages, which means that successful
hugetlb_fault() returns without releasing the reserve count.  As a
result, subsequent hugetlb_fault() might fail despite that there are
still free hugepages.

This patch simply adds decrementing code on that code path.

I reproduced this problem when testing v4.3 kernel in the following situation:
 - the test machine/VM is a NUMA system,
 - hugepage overcommiting is enabled,
 - most of hugepages are allocated and there's only one free hugepage
   which is on node 0 (for example),
 - another program, which calls set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND) to bind itself to
   node 1, tries to allocate a hugepage,
 - the allocation should fail but the reserve count is still hold.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:50:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=01a79daaa336a8cd69894813b59cb77e35b11b89'/>
<id>01a79daaa336a8cd69894813b59cb77e35b11b89</id>
<content type='text'>
commit c12176d3368b9b36ae484d323d41e94be26f9b65 upstream.

Commit 424cdc141380 ("memcg: convert threshold to bytes") has fixed a
regression introduced by 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page
counters") where thresholds were silently converted to use page units
rather than bytes when interpreting the user input.

The fix is not complete, though, as properly pointed out by Ben Hutchings
during stable backport review.  The page count is converted to bytes but
unsigned long is used to hold the value which would be obviously not
sufficient for 32b systems with more than 4G thresholds.  The same applies
to usage as taken from mem_cgroup_usage which might overflow.

Let's remove this bytes vs.  pages internal tracking differences and
handle thresholds in page units internally.  Chage mem_cgroup_usage() to
return the value in page units and revert 424cdc141380 because this should
be sufficient for the consistent handling.  mem_cgroup_read_u64 as the
only users of mem_cgroup_usage outside of the threshold handling code is
converted to give the proper in bytes result.  It is doing that already
for page_counter output so this is more consistent as well.

The value presented to the userspace is still in bytes units.

Fixes: 424cdc141380 ("memcg: convert threshold to bytes")
Fixes: 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
From: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Subject: memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
From: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Subject: memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.

don't attempt to inline mem_cgroup_usage()

The compiler ignores the inline anwyay.  And __always_inlining it adds 600
bytes of goop to the .o file.

Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;

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<pre>
commit c12176d3368b9b36ae484d323d41e94be26f9b65 upstream.

Commit 424cdc141380 ("memcg: convert threshold to bytes") has fixed a
regression introduced by 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page
counters") where thresholds were silently converted to use page units
rather than bytes when interpreting the user input.

The fix is not complete, though, as properly pointed out by Ben Hutchings
during stable backport review.  The page count is converted to bytes but
unsigned long is used to hold the value which would be obviously not
sufficient for 32b systems with more than 4G thresholds.  The same applies
to usage as taken from mem_cgroup_usage which might overflow.

Let's remove this bytes vs.  pages internal tracking differences and
handle thresholds in page units internally.  Chage mem_cgroup_usage() to
return the value in page units and revert 424cdc141380 because this should
be sufficient for the consistent handling.  mem_cgroup_read_u64 as the
only users of mem_cgroup_usage outside of the threshold handling code is
converted to give the proper in bytes result.  It is doing that already
for page_counter output so this is more consistent as well.

The value presented to the userspace is still in bytes units.

Fixes: 424cdc141380 ("memcg: convert threshold to bytes")
Fixes: 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
From: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Subject: memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
From: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Subject: memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.

don't attempt to inline mem_cgroup_usage()

The compiler ignores the inline anwyay.  And __always_inlining it adds 600
bytes of goop to the .o file.

Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/oom_kill.c: reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:47:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=83d79c0d3a568141b7792d999daf8f28e2d6c9fb'/>
<id>83d79c0d3a568141b7792d999daf8f28e2d6c9fb</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 426fb5e72d92b868912e47a1e3ca2df6eabc3872 upstream.

It was confirmed that a local unprivileged user can consume all memory
reserves and hang up that system using time lag between the OOM killer
sets TIF_MEMDIE on an OOM victim and sends SIGKILL to that victim, for
printk() inside for_each_process() loop at oom_kill_process() can consume
many seconds when there are many thread groups sharing the same memory.

Before starting oom-depleter process:

    Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB (UM) 6*8kB (U) 4*16kB (UEM) 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB (M) 2*256kB (EM) 2*512kB (UE) 2*1024kB (EM) 1*2048kB (E) 1*4096kB (M) = 9980kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 31*4kB (UEM) 27*8kB (UE) 32*16kB (UE) 13*32kB (UE) 14*64kB (UM) 7*128kB (UM) 8*256kB (UM) 8*512kB (UM) 3*1024kB (U) 4*2048kB (UM) 362*4096kB (UM) = 1503220kB

As of invoking the OOM killer:

    Node 0 DMA: 11*4kB (UE) 8*8kB (UEM) 6*16kB (UE) 2*32kB (EM) 0*64kB 1*128kB (U) 3*256kB (UEM) 2*512kB (UE) 3*1024kB (UEM) 1*2048kB (U) 0*4096kB = 7308kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 1049*4kB (UEM) 507*8kB (UE) 151*16kB (UE) 53*32kB (UEM) 83*64kB (UEM) 52*128kB (EM) 25*256kB (UEM) 11*512kB (M) 6*1024kB (UM) 1*2048kB (M) 0*4096kB = 44556kB

Between the thread group leader got TIF_MEMDIE and receives SIGKILL:

    Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB

The oom-depleter's thread group leader which got TIF_MEMDIE started
memset() in user space after the OOM killer set TIF_MEMDIE, and it was
free to abuse ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS by TIF_MEMDIE for memset() in user space
until SIGKILL is delivered.  If SIGKILL is delivered before TIF_MEMDIE is
set, the oom-depleter can terminate without touching memory reserves.

Although the possibility of hitting this time lag is very small for 3.19
and earlier kernels because TIF_MEMDIE is set immediately before sending
SIGKILL, preemption or long interrupts (an extreme example is SysRq-t) can
step between and allow memory allocations which are not needed for
terminating the OOM victim.

Fixes: 83363b917a29 ("oom: make sure that TIF_MEMDIE is set under task_lock")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 426fb5e72d92b868912e47a1e3ca2df6eabc3872 upstream.

It was confirmed that a local unprivileged user can consume all memory
reserves and hang up that system using time lag between the OOM killer
sets TIF_MEMDIE on an OOM victim and sends SIGKILL to that victim, for
printk() inside for_each_process() loop at oom_kill_process() can consume
many seconds when there are many thread groups sharing the same memory.

Before starting oom-depleter process:

    Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB (UM) 6*8kB (U) 4*16kB (UEM) 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB (M) 2*256kB (EM) 2*512kB (UE) 2*1024kB (EM) 1*2048kB (E) 1*4096kB (M) = 9980kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 31*4kB (UEM) 27*8kB (UE) 32*16kB (UE) 13*32kB (UE) 14*64kB (UM) 7*128kB (UM) 8*256kB (UM) 8*512kB (UM) 3*1024kB (U) 4*2048kB (UM) 362*4096kB (UM) = 1503220kB

As of invoking the OOM killer:

    Node 0 DMA: 11*4kB (UE) 8*8kB (UEM) 6*16kB (UE) 2*32kB (EM) 0*64kB 1*128kB (U) 3*256kB (UEM) 2*512kB (UE) 3*1024kB (UEM) 1*2048kB (U) 0*4096kB = 7308kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 1049*4kB (UEM) 507*8kB (UE) 151*16kB (UE) 53*32kB (UEM) 83*64kB (UEM) 52*128kB (EM) 25*256kB (UEM) 11*512kB (M) 6*1024kB (UM) 1*2048kB (M) 0*4096kB = 44556kB

Between the thread group leader got TIF_MEMDIE and receives SIGKILL:

    Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB
    Node 0 DMA32: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB

The oom-depleter's thread group leader which got TIF_MEMDIE started
memset() in user space after the OOM killer set TIF_MEMDIE, and it was
free to abuse ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS by TIF_MEMDIE for memset() in user space
until SIGKILL is delivered.  If SIGKILL is delivered before TIF_MEMDIE is
set, the oom-depleter can terminate without touching memory reserves.

Although the possibility of hitting this time lag is very small for 3.19
and earlier kernels because TIF_MEMDIE is set immediately before sending
SIGKILL, preemption or long interrupts (an extreme example is SysRq-t) can
step between and allow memory allocations which are not needed for
terminating the OOM victim.

Fixes: 83363b917a29 ("oom: make sure that TIF_MEMDIE is set under task_lock")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: slab: only move management objects off-slab for sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T22:28:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:45:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=64615901324372f00677e39cd16efa319f604215'/>
<id>64615901324372f00677e39cd16efa319f604215</id>
<content type='text'>
commit d4322d88f5fdf92729dd40f923013414fbb2184d upstream.

On systems with a KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE of 128 (arm64, some mips and powerpc
configurations defining ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128), the first
kmalloc_caches[] entry to be initialised after slab_early_init = 0 is
"kmalloc-128" with index 7.  Depending on the debug kernel configuration,
sizeof(struct kmem_cache) can be larger than 128 resulting in an
INDEX_NODE of 8.

Commit 8fc9cf420b36 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the
slab") enables off-slab management objects for sizes starting with
PAGE_SIZE &gt;&gt; 5 (128 bytes for a 4KB page configuration) and the creation
of the "kmalloc-128" cache would try to place the management objects
off-slab.  However, since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is already 128 and
freelist_size == 32 in __kmem_cache_create(), kmalloc_slab(freelist_size)
returns NULL (kmalloc_caches[7] not populated yet).  This triggers the
following bug on arm64:

  kernel BUG at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/mm/slab.c:2283!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.3.0-rc4+ #540
  Hardware name: Juno (DT)
  PC is at __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
  LR is at __kmem_cache_create+0x210/0x280
  [...]
  Call trace:
    __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
    create_boot_cache+0x48/0x80
    create_kmalloc_cache+0x50/0x88
    create_kmalloc_caches+0x4c/0xf4
    kmem_cache_init+0x100/0x118
    start_kernel+0x214/0x33c

This patch introduces an OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE definition to avoid off-slab
management objects for sizes equal to or smaller than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE.

Fixes: 8fc9cf420b36 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the slab")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d4322d88f5fdf92729dd40f923013414fbb2184d upstream.

On systems with a KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE of 128 (arm64, some mips and powerpc
configurations defining ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128), the first
kmalloc_caches[] entry to be initialised after slab_early_init = 0 is
"kmalloc-128" with index 7.  Depending on the debug kernel configuration,
sizeof(struct kmem_cache) can be larger than 128 resulting in an
INDEX_NODE of 8.

Commit 8fc9cf420b36 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the
slab") enables off-slab management objects for sizes starting with
PAGE_SIZE &gt;&gt; 5 (128 bytes for a 4KB page configuration) and the creation
of the "kmalloc-128" cache would try to place the management objects
off-slab.  However, since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is already 128 and
freelist_size == 32 in __kmem_cache_create(), kmalloc_slab(freelist_size)
returns NULL (kmalloc_caches[7] not populated yet).  This triggers the
following bug on arm64:

  kernel BUG at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/mm/slab.c:2283!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.3.0-rc4+ #540
  Hardware name: Juno (DT)
  PC is at __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
  LR is at __kmem_cache_create+0x210/0x280
  [...]
  Call trace:
    __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
    create_boot_cache+0x48/0x80
    create_kmalloc_cache+0x50/0x88
    create_kmalloc_caches+0x4c/0xf4
    kmem_cache_init+0x100/0x118
    start_kernel+0x214/0x33c

This patch introduces an OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE definition to avoid off-slab
management objects for sizes equal to or smaller than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE.

Fixes: 8fc9cf420b36 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the slab")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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