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SubjectRe: OOPSes in mem_cgroup_protected
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:08:27PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:02 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
>> > Hey Tejun,
>> > With the current linus/master, I'm able to fairly regularly trip
>> > OOPSes (two examples below) in mem_cgroup_protected(), which seems to
>> > be new. I haven't managed to trigger this sort of thing with v4.17.
>> >
>> > I've not had much time to dig in or bisect it - I only know that
>> > enabling most of the memory debuging config options didn't seem to
>> > trip anything prior to the issue. So I wanted to send you a heads up
>> > to see if there was already known, or if there was anything you might
>> > suggest to help chase this down.
>>
>>
>> So the line where we're crashing seems to be in mem_cgroup_protected():
>> parent_emin = READ_ONCE(parent->memory.emin);
>>
>> where I'm guessing the parent->memory value is null, and emin is at
>> the 0x120 offset in the strucutre.
>>
>> Reverting the following commits seems to avoid the issue.
>> bf8d5d52ffe8 ("memcg: introduce memory.min")
>> 5f93ad67436b ("mm: treat memory.low value inclusive")
>> 230671533d64 ("mm: memory.low hierarchical behavior")
>>
>> I'm guessing I'm tripping over some path where the memory value never
>> gets initialized?
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Hi, John!
>
> The patch below should fix the problem.
> It's in the mm tree right now, and hopefully will be merged upstream asap.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

No worries, thanks for the quick fix! The patch you sent seems to be
working well!

Thanks again!
-john

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