Re: bug in memcg oom-killer results in a hung syscall in another process in the same cgroup

[Shayan Pooya]

> Well, but we can't do this. And "as expected" is actually just wrong. I still
> think that the whole FAULT_FLAG_USER logic is not right. This needs another email.

I meant as expected from the content of the patch :) I think
Konstantin agrees that this patch cannot be merged upstream.

> fork() should not fail because there is a memory hog in the same memcg. Worse,
> pthread_create() can kill the caller by the same reason. And we have the same
> or even worse problem with ->clear_child_tid, pthread_join() can hang forever.
> Unlikely we want to kill the application in this case ;)
>
> And in fact I think that the problem has nothing to do with set/claer_child_tid
> in particular.
>
> I am just curious... can you reproduce the problem reliably? If yes, can you try
> the patch below ? Just in case, this is not the real fix in any case...

Yes. It deterministically results in hung processes in vanilla kernel.
I'll try this patch.


> --- x/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ x/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2793,8 +2793,11 @@ asmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev)
>         balance_callback(rq);
>         preempt_enable();
>
> -       if (current->set_child_tid)
> +       if (current->set_child_tid) {
> +               mem_cgroup_oom_enable();
>                 put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current->set_child_tid);
> +               mem_cgroup_oom_disable();
> +       }
>  }
>
>  /*
>