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<title>memcg: prevent memcg caches to be both OFF_SLAB &amp; OBJFREELIST_SLAB</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T09:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Thelen</name>
<email>gthelen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-10T18:46:41+00:00</published>
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commit f773e36de3d77c4000ca914c9d146f55f2fd51e8 upstream.

While testing OBJFREELIST_SLAB integration with pagealloc, we found a
bug where kmem_cache(sys) would be created with both CFLGS_OFF_SLAB &amp;
CFLGS_OBJFREELIST_SLAB.  When it happened, critical allocations needed
for loading drivers or creating new caches will fail.

The original kmem_cache is created early making OFF_SLAB not possible.
When kmem_cache(sys) is created, OFF_SLAB is possible and if pagealloc
is enabled it will try to enable it first under certain conditions.
Given kmem_cache(sys) reuses the original flag, you can have both flags
at the same time resulting in allocation failures and odd behaviors.

This fix discards allocator specific flags from memcg before calling
create_cache.

The bug exists since 4.6-rc1 and affects testing debug pagealloc
configurations.

Fixes: b03a017bebc4 ("mm/slab: introduce new slab management type, OBJFREELIST_SLAB")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478553075-120242-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&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;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: 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 f773e36de3d77c4000ca914c9d146f55f2fd51e8 upstream.

While testing OBJFREELIST_SLAB integration with pagealloc, we found a
bug where kmem_cache(sys) would be created with both CFLGS_OFF_SLAB &amp;
CFLGS_OBJFREELIST_SLAB.  When it happened, critical allocations needed
for loading drivers or creating new caches will fail.

The original kmem_cache is created early making OFF_SLAB not possible.
When kmem_cache(sys) is created, OFF_SLAB is possible and if pagealloc
is enabled it will try to enable it first under certain conditions.
Given kmem_cache(sys) reuses the original flag, you can have both flags
at the same time resulting in allocation failures and odd behaviors.

This fix discards allocator specific flags from memcg before calling
create_cache.

The bug exists since 4.6-rc1 and affects testing debug pagealloc
configurations.

Fixes: b03a017bebc4 ("mm/slab: introduce new slab management type, OBJFREELIST_SLAB")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478553075-120242-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&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;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: 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: fix huge page reservation leak in private mapping error paths</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T09:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Kravetz</name>
<email>mike.kravetz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-10T18:46:32+00:00</published>
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commit 96b96a96ddee4ba08ce4aeb8a558a3271fd4a7a7 upstream.

Error paths in hugetlb_cow() and hugetlb_no_page() may free a newly
allocated huge page.

If a reservation was associated with the huge page, alloc_huge_page()
consumed the reservation while allocating.  When the newly allocated
page is freed in free_huge_page(), it will increment the global
reservation count.  However, the reservation entry in the reserve map
will remain.

This is not an issue for shared mappings as the entry in the reserve map
indicates a reservation exists.  But, an entry in a private mapping
reserve map indicates the reservation was consumed and no longer exists.
This results in an inconsistency between the reserve map and the global
reservation count.  This 'leaks' a reserved huge page.

Create a new routine restore_reserve_on_error() to restore the reserve
entry in these specific error paths.  This routine makes use of a new
function vma_add_reservation() which will add a reserve entry for a
specific address/page.

In general, these error paths were rarely (if ever) taken on most
architectures.  However, powerpc contained arch specific code that that
resulted in an extra fault and execution of these error paths on all
private mappings.

Fixes: 67961f9db8c4 ("mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reserve accounting for private mappings)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476933077-23091-2-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A . Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.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 96b96a96ddee4ba08ce4aeb8a558a3271fd4a7a7 upstream.

Error paths in hugetlb_cow() and hugetlb_no_page() may free a newly
allocated huge page.

If a reservation was associated with the huge page, alloc_huge_page()
consumed the reservation while allocating.  When the newly allocated
page is freed in free_huge_page(), it will increment the global
reservation count.  However, the reservation entry in the reserve map
will remain.

This is not an issue for shared mappings as the entry in the reserve map
indicates a reservation exists.  But, an entry in a private mapping
reserve map indicates the reservation was consumed and no longer exists.
This results in an inconsistency between the reserve map and the global
reservation count.  This 'leaks' a reserved huge page.

Create a new routine restore_reserve_on_error() to restore the reserve
entry in these specific error paths.  This routine makes use of a new
function vma_add_reservation() which will add a reserve entry for a
specific address/page.

In general, these error paths were rarely (if ever) taken on most
architectures.  However, powerpc contained arch specific code that that
resulted in an extra fault and execution of these error paths on all
private mappings.

Fixes: 67961f9db8c4 ("mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reserve accounting for private mappings)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476933077-23091-2-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A . Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.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: hwpoison: fix thp split handling in memory_failure()</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T09:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-10T18:46:23+00:00</published>
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commit c3901e722b2975666f42748340df798114742d6d upstream.

When memory_failure() runs on a thp tail page after pmd is split, we
trigger the following VM_BUG_ON_PAGE():

   page:ffffd7cd819b0040 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:         (null) index:0x1
   flags: 0x1fffc000400000(hwpoison)
   page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(p))
   ------------[ cut here ]------------
   kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/memory-failure.c:1132!

memory_failure() passed refcount and page lock from tail page to head
page, which is not needed because we can pass any subpage to
split_huge_page().

Fixes: 61f5d698cc97 ("mm: re-enable THP")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477961577-7183-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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 c3901e722b2975666f42748340df798114742d6d upstream.

When memory_failure() runs on a thp tail page after pmd is split, we
trigger the following VM_BUG_ON_PAGE():

   page:ffffd7cd819b0040 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:         (null) index:0x1
   flags: 0x1fffc000400000(hwpoison)
   page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(p))
   ------------[ cut here ]------------
   kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/memory-failure.c:1132!

memory_failure() passed refcount and page lock from tail page to head
page, which is not needed because we can pass any subpage to
split_huge_page().

Fixes: 61f5d698cc97 ("mm: re-enable THP")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477961577-7183-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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>
<entry>
<title>swapfile: fix memory corruption via malformed swapfile</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T09:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jann@thejh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-10T18:46:19+00:00</published>
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commit dd111be69114cc867f8e826284559bfbc1c40e37 upstream.

When root activates a swap partition whose header has the wrong
endianness, nr_badpages elements of badpages are swabbed before
nr_badpages has been checked, leading to a buffer overrun of up to 8GB.

This normally is not a security issue because it can only be exploited
by root (more specifically, a process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the ability
to modify a swap file/partition), and such a process can already e.g.
modify swapped-out memory of any other userspace process on the system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477949533-2509-1-git-send-email-jann@thejh.net
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@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 dd111be69114cc867f8e826284559bfbc1c40e37 upstream.

When root activates a swap partition whose header has the wrong
endianness, nr_badpages elements of badpages are swabbed before
nr_badpages has been checked, leading to a buffer overrun of up to 8GB.

This normally is not a security issue because it can only be exploited
by root (more specifically, a process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the ability
to modify a swap file/partition), and such a process can already e.g.
modify swapped-out memory of any other userspace process on the system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477949533-2509-1-git-send-email-jann@thejh.net
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>shmem: fix pageflags after swapping DMA32 object</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T09:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-10T18:46:11+00:00</published>
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commit 9956edf37e65e93fbb76dcff1236dff2323d306a upstream.

If shmem_alloc_page() does not set PageLocked and PageSwapBacked, then
shmem_replace_page() needs to do so for itself.  Without this, it puts
newpage on the wrong lru, re-unlocks the unlocked newpage, and system
descends into "Bad page" reports and freeze; or if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, it
hits an earlier VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked), depending on config.

But shmem_replace_page() is not a common path: it's only called when
swapin (or swapoff) finds the page was already read into an unsuitable
zone: usually all zones are suitable, but gem objects for a few drm
devices (gma500, omapdrm, crestline, broadwater) require zone DMA32 if
there's more than 4GB of ram.

Fixes: 800d8c63b2e9 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1611062003510.11253@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.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 9956edf37e65e93fbb76dcff1236dff2323d306a upstream.

If shmem_alloc_page() does not set PageLocked and PageSwapBacked, then
shmem_replace_page() needs to do so for itself.  Without this, it puts
newpage on the wrong lru, re-unlocks the unlocked newpage, and system
descends into "Bad page" reports and freeze; or if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, it
hits an earlier VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked), depending on config.

But shmem_replace_page() is not a common path: it's only called when
swapin (or swapoff) finds the page was already read into an unsuitable
zone: usually all zones are suitable, but gem objects for a few drm
devices (gma500, omapdrm, crestline, broadwater) require zone DMA32 if
there's more than 4GB of ram.

Fixes: 800d8c63b2e9 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1611062003510.11253@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.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: do not recurse in direct reclaim</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T15:38:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T00:46:56+00:00</published>
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commit 89a2848381b5fcd9c4d9c0cd97680e3b28730e31 upstream.

On 4.0, we saw a stack corruption from a page fault entering direct
memory cgroup reclaim, calling into btrfs_releasepage(), which then
tried to allocate an extent and recursed back into a kmem charge ad
nauseam:

  [...]
  btrfs_releasepage+0x2c/0x30
  try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
  shrink_page_list+0x6da/0x7a0
  shrink_inactive_list+0x1e5/0x510
  shrink_lruvec+0x605/0x7f0
  shrink_zone+0xee/0x320
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x174/0x440
  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xa7/0x130
  try_charge+0x17b/0x830
  memcg_charge_kmem+0x40/0x80
  new_slab+0x2d9/0x5a0
  __slab_alloc+0x2fd/0x44f
  kmem_cache_alloc+0x193/0x1e0
  alloc_extent_state+0x21/0xc0
  __clear_extent_bit+0x2b5/0x400
  try_release_extent_mapping+0x1a3/0x220
  __btrfs_releasepage+0x31/0x70
  btrfs_releasepage+0x2c/0x30
  try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
  shrink_page_list+0x6da/0x7a0
  shrink_inactive_list+0x1e5/0x510
  shrink_lruvec+0x605/0x7f0
  shrink_zone+0xee/0x320
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x174/0x440
  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xa7/0x130
  try_charge+0x17b/0x830
  mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x65/0x1c0
  handle_mm_fault+0x117f/0x1510
  __do_page_fault+0x177/0x420
  do_page_fault+0xc/0x10
  page_fault+0x22/0x30

On later kernels, kmem charging is opt-in rather than opt-out, and that
particular kmem allocation in btrfs_releasepage() is no longer being
charged and won't recurse and overrun the stack anymore.

But it's not impossible for an accounted allocation to happen from the
memcg direct reclaim context, and we needed to reproduce this crash many
times before we even got a useful stack trace out of it.

Like other direct reclaimers, mark tasks in memcg reclaim PF_MEMALLOC to
avoid recursing into any other form of direct reclaim.  Then let
recursive charges from PF_MEMALLOC contexts bypass the cgroup limit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161025141050.GA13019@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.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 89a2848381b5fcd9c4d9c0cd97680e3b28730e31 upstream.

On 4.0, we saw a stack corruption from a page fault entering direct
memory cgroup reclaim, calling into btrfs_releasepage(), which then
tried to allocate an extent and recursed back into a kmem charge ad
nauseam:

  [...]
  btrfs_releasepage+0x2c/0x30
  try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
  shrink_page_list+0x6da/0x7a0
  shrink_inactive_list+0x1e5/0x510
  shrink_lruvec+0x605/0x7f0
  shrink_zone+0xee/0x320
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x174/0x440
  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xa7/0x130
  try_charge+0x17b/0x830
  memcg_charge_kmem+0x40/0x80
  new_slab+0x2d9/0x5a0
  __slab_alloc+0x2fd/0x44f
  kmem_cache_alloc+0x193/0x1e0
  alloc_extent_state+0x21/0xc0
  __clear_extent_bit+0x2b5/0x400
  try_release_extent_mapping+0x1a3/0x220
  __btrfs_releasepage+0x31/0x70
  btrfs_releasepage+0x2c/0x30
  try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
  shrink_page_list+0x6da/0x7a0
  shrink_inactive_list+0x1e5/0x510
  shrink_lruvec+0x605/0x7f0
  shrink_zone+0xee/0x320
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x174/0x440
  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xa7/0x130
  try_charge+0x17b/0x830
  mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x65/0x1c0
  handle_mm_fault+0x117f/0x1510
  __do_page_fault+0x177/0x420
  do_page_fault+0xc/0x10
  page_fault+0x22/0x30

On later kernels, kmem charging is opt-in rather than opt-out, and that
particular kmem allocation in btrfs_releasepage() is no longer being
charged and won't recurse and overrun the stack anymore.

But it's not impossible for an accounted allocation to happen from the
memcg direct reclaim context, and we needed to reproduce this crash many
times before we even got a useful stack trace out of it.

Like other direct reclaimers, mark tasks in memcg reclaim PF_MEMALLOC to
avoid recursing into any other form of direct reclaim.  Then let
recursive charges from PF_MEMALLOC contexts bypass the cgroup limit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161025141050.GA13019@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.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/slab: fix kmemcg cache creation delayed issue</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T15:38:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T00:46:18+00:00</published>
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commit 86d9f48534e800e4d62cdc1b5aaf539f4c1d47d6 upstream.

There is a bug report that SLAB makes extreme load average due to over
2000 kworker thread.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981

This issue is caused by kmemcg feature that try to create new set of
kmem_caches for each memcg.  Recently, kmem_cache creation is slowed by
synchronize_sched() and futher kmem_cache creation is also delayed since
kmem_cache creation is synchronized by a global slab_mutex lock.  So,
the number of kworker that try to create kmem_cache increases quietly.

synchronize_sched() is for lockless access to node's shared array but
it's not needed when a new kmem_cache is created.  So, this patch rules
out that case.

Fixes: 801faf0db894 ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475734855-4837-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Reported-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Tested-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&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 86d9f48534e800e4d62cdc1b5aaf539f4c1d47d6 upstream.

There is a bug report that SLAB makes extreme load average due to over
2000 kworker thread.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981

This issue is caused by kmemcg feature that try to create new set of
kmem_caches for each memcg.  Recently, kmem_cache creation is slowed by
synchronize_sched() and futher kmem_cache creation is also delayed since
kmem_cache creation is synchronized by a global slab_mutex lock.  So,
the number of kworker that try to create kmem_cache increases quietly.

synchronize_sched() is for lockless access to node's shared array but
it's not needed when a new kmem_cache is created.  So, this patch rules
out that case.

Fixes: 801faf0db894 ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475734855-4837-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Reported-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Tested-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T15:38:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Polakov</name>
<email>apolyakov@beget.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T00:46:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=67ae004e2c52637101b8479e7b2d2496c674e7ca'/>
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commit 1bc11d70b5db7c6bb1414b283d7f09b1fe1ac0d0 upstream.

As described in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177821:

After some analysis it seems to be that the problem is in alloc_super().
In case list_lru_init_memcg() fails it goes into destroy_super(), which
calls list_lru_destroy().

And in list_lru_init() we see that in case memcg_init_list_lru() fails,
lru-&gt;node is freed, but not set NULL, which then leads list_lru_destroy()
to believe it is initialized and call memcg_destroy_list_lru().
memcg_destroy_list_lru() in turn can access lru-&gt;node[i].memcg_lrus,
which is NULL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Polakov &lt;apolyakov@beget.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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 1bc11d70b5db7c6bb1414b283d7f09b1fe1ac0d0 upstream.

As described in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177821:

After some analysis it seems to be that the problem is in alloc_super().
In case list_lru_init_memcg() fails it goes into destroy_super(), which
calls list_lru_destroy().

And in list_lru_init() we see that in case memcg_init_list_lru() fails,
lru-&gt;node is freed, but not set NULL, which then leads list_lru_destroy()
to believe it is initialized and call memcg_destroy_list_lru().
memcg_destroy_list_lru() in turn can access lru-&gt;node[i].memcg_lrus,
which is NULL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Polakov &lt;apolyakov@beget.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: improve locking in dissolve_free_huge_pages()</title>
<updated>2016-10-31T11:02:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-08T00:01:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ae1d0b6ec8ec9564ff80b63c73d167fc87e8fb28'/>
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commit eb03aa008561004257900983193d024e57abdd96 upstream.

For every pfn aligned to minimum_order, dissolve_free_huge_pages() will
call dissolve_free_huge_page() which takes the hugetlb spinlock, even if
the page is not huge at all or a hugepage that is in-use.

Improve this by doing the PageHuge() and page_count() checks already in
dissolve_free_huge_pages() before calling dissolve_free_huge_page().  In
dissolve_free_huge_page(), when holding the spinlock, those checks need
to be revalidated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-4-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Teng &lt;rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.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 eb03aa008561004257900983193d024e57abdd96 upstream.

For every pfn aligned to minimum_order, dissolve_free_huge_pages() will
call dissolve_free_huge_page() which takes the hugetlb spinlock, even if
the page is not huge at all or a hugepage that is in-use.

Improve this by doing the PageHuge() and page_count() checks already in
dissolve_free_huge_pages() before calling dissolve_free_huge_page().  In
dissolve_free_huge_page(), when holding the spinlock, those checks need
to be revalidated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-4-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Teng &lt;rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: check for reserved hugepages during memory offline</title>
<updated>2016-10-31T11:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-08T00:01:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8f858254414942cff6fcdc6a91cfbb4b81dc9036'/>
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commit 082d5b6b60e9f25e1511557fcfcb21eedd267446 upstream.

In dissolve_free_huge_pages(), free hugepages will be dissolved without
making sure that there are enough of them left to satisfy hugepage
reservations.

Fix this by adding a return value to dissolve_free_huge_pages() and
checking h-&gt;free_huge_pages vs.  h-&gt;resv_huge_pages.  Note that this may
lead to the situation where dissolve_free_huge_page() returns an error
and all free hugepages that were dissolved before that error are lost,
while the memory block still cannot be set offline.

Fixes: c8721bbb ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-3-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Teng &lt;rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.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 082d5b6b60e9f25e1511557fcfcb21eedd267446 upstream.

In dissolve_free_huge_pages(), free hugepages will be dissolved without
making sure that there are enough of them left to satisfy hugepage
reservations.

Fix this by adding a return value to dissolve_free_huge_pages() and
checking h-&gt;free_huge_pages vs.  h-&gt;resv_huge_pages.  Note that this may
lead to the situation where dissolve_free_huge_page() returns an error
and all free hugepages that were dissolved before that error are lost,
while the memory block still cannot be set offline.

Fixes: c8721bbb ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-3-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Teng &lt;rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.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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