Re: list corruption in deferred_split_scan()

[Shakeel Butt]

Adding related people.

The thread starts at:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1562795006.8510.19.camel@xxxxxx

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:01 PM Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 7/15/19 6:36 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
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> >> On Jul 15, 2019, at 8:22 PM, Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On 7/15/19 2:23 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2019-07-12 at 12:12 -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> >>>>> Another possible lead is that without reverting the those commits below,
> >>>>> kdump
> >>>>> kernel would always also crash in shrink_slab_memcg() at this line,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> map = rcu_dereference_protected(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_map, true);
> >>>> This looks a little bit weird. It seems nodeinfo[nid] is NULL? I didn't
> >>>> think of where nodeinfo was freed but memcg was still online. Maybe a
> >>>> check is needed:
> >>> Actually, "memcg" is NULL.
> >> It sounds weird. shrink_slab() is called in mem_cgroup_iter which does pin the memcg. So, the memcg should not go away.
> > Well, the commit âmm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg kmemâ changed this line in shrink_slab_memcg(),
> >
> > -     if (!memcg_kmem_enabled() || !mem_cgroup_online(memcg))
> > +     if (!mem_cgroup_online(memcg))
> >               return 0;
> >
> > Since the kdump kernel has the parameter âcgroup_disable=memoryâ, shrink_slab_memcg() will no longer be able to handle NULL memcg from mem_cgroup_iter() as,
> >
> > if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> >       return NULL;
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> Aha, yes. memcg_kmem_enabled() implicitly checks !mem_cgroup_disabled().
> Thanks for figuring this out. I think we need add mem_cgroup_dsiabled()
> check before calling shrink_slab_memcg() as below:
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> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index a0301ed..2f03c61 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int
> nid,
>          unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
>          struct shrinker *shrinker;
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> -       if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> +       if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
>                  return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority);
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>          if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))
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We were seeing unneeded oom-kills on kernels with
"cgroup_disabled=memory" and Yang's patch series basically expose the
bug to crash. I think the commit aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c:
generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()") missed the case for
"cgroup_disabled=memory". However I am surprised that root_mem_cgroup
is allocated even for "cgroup_disabled=memory" and it seems like
css_alloc() is called even before checking if the corresponding
controller is disabled.

Yang, can you please send the above change with signed-off and CC to
stable as well?

thanks,
Shakeel