Commit ad46fed9 authored by Daisuke Nishimura's avatar Daisuke Nishimura Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy

commit d31f56db upstream.

task_in_mem_cgroup(), which is called by select_bad_process() to check
whether a task can be a candidate for being oom-killed from memcg's limit,
checks "curr->use_hierarchy"("curr" is the mem_cgroup the task belongs
to).

But this check return true(it's false positive) when:

	<some path>/aa		use_hierarchy == 0	<- hitting limit
	  <some path>/aa/00	use_hierarchy == 1	<- the task belongs to

This leads to killing an innocent task in aa/00.  This patch is a fix for
this bug.  And this patch also fixes the arg for
mem_cgroup_print_oom_info().  We should print information of mem_cgroup
which the task being killed, not current, belongs to.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent b52d8556
......@@ -758,7 +758,13 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
task_unlock(task);
if (!curr)
return 0;
if (curr->use_hierarchy)
/*
* We should check use_hierarchy of "mem" not "curr". Because checking
* use_hierarchy of "curr" here make this function true if hierarchy is
* enabled in "curr" and "curr" is a child of "mem" in *cgroup*
* hierarchy(even if use_hierarchy is disabled in "mem").
*/
if (mem->use_hierarchy)
ret = css_is_ancestor(&curr->css, &mem->css);
else
ret = (curr == mem);
......
......@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current);
task_unlock(current);
dump_stack();
mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem, current);
mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(mem, p);
show_mem();
if (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks)
dump_tasks(mem);
......
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