tree 2bc6dca412dad10547bbc655ad6e57e88cbd783d
parent 8eab7035b231aa3ac27b20ec77f85375e4413083
author Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 1593142216 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1593156457 -0700

mm: memcontrol: handle div0 crash race condition in memory.low

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: 8a931f801340 ("mm: memcontrol: recursive memory.low protection")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>