memcg: fix swapcache charge from kernel thread context

Commit 284f39afeaa4 ("mm: memcg: push !mm handling out to page cache
charge function") explicitly checks for page cache charges without any
mm context (from kernel thread context[1]).

This seemed to be the only possible case where memory could be charged
without mm context so commit 03583f1a631c ("memcg: remove unnecessary
!mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()") removed the mm check from
get_mem_cgroup_from_mm().  This however caused another NULL ptr
dereference during early boot when loopback kernel thread splices to
tmpfs as reported by Stephan Kulow:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000360
  IP: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.isra.42+0x2b/0x60
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: btrfs dm_multipath dm_mod scsi_dh multipath raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 md_mod parport_pc parport nls_utf8 isofs usb_storage iscsi_ibft iscsi_boot_sysfs arc4 ecb fan thermal nfs lockd fscache nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 sg st hid_generic usbhid af_packet sunrpc sr_mod cdrom ata_generic uhci_hcd virtio_net virtio_blk ehci_hcd usbcore ata_piix floppy processor button usb_common virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio edd squashfs loop ppa]
  CPU: 0 PID: 97 Comm: loop1 Not tainted 3.15.0-rc5-5-default #1
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x40/0xe0
    mem_cgroup_charge_file+0x8b/0xd0
    shmem_getpage_gfp+0x66b/0x7b0
    shmem_file_splice_read+0x18f/0x430
    splice_direct_to_actor+0xa2/0x1c0
    do_lo_receive+0x5a/0x60 [loop]
    loop_thread+0x298/0x720 [loop]
    kthread+0xc6/0xe0
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

Also Branimir Maksimovic reported the following oops which is tiggered
for the swapcache charge path from the accounting code for kernel threads:

  CPU: 1 PID: 160 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: P           OE 3.15.0-rc5-core2-custom #159
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/MAXIMUSV GENE, BIOS 1903 08/19/2013
  task: ffff880404e349b0 ti: ffff88040486a000 task.ti: ffff88040486a000
  RIP: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.isra.42+0x2b/0x60
  Call Trace:
    __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin+0x45/0xf0
    mem_cgroup_charge_file+0x9c/0xe0
    shmem_getpage_gfp+0x62c/0x770
    shmem_write_begin+0x38/0x40
    generic_perform_write+0xc5/0x1c0
    __generic_file_aio_write+0x1d1/0x3f0
    generic_file_aio_write+0x4f/0xc0
    do_sync_write+0x5a/0x90
    do_acct_process+0x4b1/0x550
    acct_process+0x6d/0xa0
    do_exit+0x827/0xa70
    kthread+0xc3/0xf0

This patch fixes the issue by reintroducing mm check into
get_mem_cgroup_from_mm.  We could do the same trick in
__mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin as we do for the regular page cache path
but it is not worth troubles.  The check is not that expensive and it is
better to have get_mem_cgroup_from_mm more robust.

[1] - http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139463617808941&w=2

Fixes: 03583f1a631c ("memcg: remove unnecessary !mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()")
Reported-and-tested-by: Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.com>
Reported-by: Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c47dffd..5177c6d 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1077,9 +1077,18 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	do {
-		memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
-		if (unlikely(!memcg))
+		/*
+		 * Page cache insertions can happen withou an
+		 * actual mm context, e.g. during disk probing
+		 * on boot, loopback IO, acct() writes etc.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(!mm))
 			memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
+		else {
+			memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
+			if (unlikely(!memcg))
+				memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
+		}
 	} while (!css_tryget(&memcg->css));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return memcg;
@@ -3958,17 +3967,9 @@ int mem_cgroup_charge_file(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Page cache insertions can happen without an actual mm
-	 * context, e.g. during disk probing on boot.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(!mm))
-		memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
-	else {
-		memcg = mem_cgroup_try_charge_mm(mm, gfp_mask, 1, true);
-		if (!memcg)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	memcg = mem_cgroup_try_charge_mm(mm, gfp_mask, 1, true);
+	if (!memcg)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	__mem_cgroup_commit_charge(memcg, page, 1, type, false);
 	return 0;
 }