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    mm: memcontrol: handle div0 crash race condition in memory.low · 2652d59d
    Johannes Weiner authored
    commit cd324edc upstream.
    
    Tejun reports seeing rare div0 crashes in memory.low stress testing:
    
      RIP: 0010:mem_cgroup_calculate_protection+0xed/0x150
      Code: 0f 46 d1 4c 39 d8 72 57 f6 05 16 d6 42 01 40 74 1f 4c 39 d8 76 1a 4c 39 d1 76 15 4c 29 d1 4c 29 d8 4d 29 d9 31 d2 48 0f af c1 <49> f7 f1 49 01 c2 4c 89 96 38 01 00 00 5d c3 48 0f af c7 31 d2 49
      RSP: 0018:ffffa14e01d6fcd0 EFLAGS: 00010246
      RAX: 000000000243e384 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000008f4b
      RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8b89bee84000 RDI: 0000000000000000
      RBP: ffffa14e01d6fcd0 R08: ffff8b89ca7d40f8 R09: 0000000000000000
      R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000006422f7 R12: 0000000000000000
      R13: ffff8b89d9617000 R14: ffff8b89bee84000 R15: ffffa14e01d6fdb8
      FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8b8a1f1c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
      CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
      CR2: 00007f93b1fc175b CR3: 000000016100a000 CR4: 0000000000340ea0
      Call Trace:
        shrink_node+0x1e5/0x6c0
        balance_pgdat+0x32d/0x5f0
        kswapd+0x1d7/0x3d0
        kthread+0x11c/0x160
        ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
    
    This happens when parent_usage == siblings_protected.
    
    We check that usage is bigger than protected, which should imply
    parent_usage being bigger than siblings_protected.  However, we don't
    read (or even update) these values atomically, and they can be out of
    sync as the memory state changes under us.  A bit of fluctuation around
    the target protection isn't a big deal, but we need to handle the div0
    case.
    
    Check the parent state explicitly to make sure we have a reasonable
    positive value for the divisor.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200615140658.601684-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
    Fixes: 8a931f80
    
     ("mm: memcontrol: recursive memory.low protection")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
    Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    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@linuxfoundation.org>
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