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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2013-12-12 17:12:35 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-20 07:48:57 -0800
commite9710e26511bd44af8f797dc773d3d81b0933a49 (patch)
treea6ee48f906fbe53073917159355958a8dc6038d8
parent3594bd7a05cb04a2459f4fadf0dc8f6685f2e952 (diff)
mm: memcg: do not allow task about to OOM kill to bypass the limit
commit 1f14c1ac19aa45118054b6d5425873c5c7fc23a1 upstream. Commit 4942642080ea ("mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully") allowed tasks that already entered a memcg OOM condition to bypass the memcg limit on subsequent allocation attempts hoping this would expedite finishing the page fault and executing the kill. David Rientjes is worried that this breaks memcg isolation guarantees and since there is no evidence that the bypass actually speeds up fault processing just change it so that these subsequent charge attempts fail outright. The notable exception being __GFP_NOFAIL charges which are required to bypass the limit regardless. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-bt: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 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>
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index cc4f9cbe760..b6e0722e813 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2675,7 +2675,7 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mm_struct *mm,
goto bypass;
if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
- goto bypass;
+ goto nomem;
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
oom = false;