From d31f56dbf8bafaacb0c617f9a6f137498d5c7aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daisuke Nishimura Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:47:12 -0800 Subject: memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy task_in_mem_cgroup(), which is called by select_bad_process() to check whether a task can be a candidate for being oom-killed from memcg's limit, checks "curr->use_hierarchy"("curr" is the mem_cgroup the task belongs to). But this check return true(it's false positive) when: /aa use_hierarchy == 0 <- hitting limit /aa/00 use_hierarchy == 1 <- the task belongs to This leads to killing an innocent task in aa/00. This patch is a fix for this bug. And this patch also fixes the arg for mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(). We should print information of mem_cgroup which the task being killed, not current, belongs to. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura Acked-by: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memcontrol.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c') diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 6273984f2e34..a294b7576070 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -760,7 +760,13 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, const struct mem_cgroup *mem) task_unlock(task); if (!curr) return 0; - if (curr->use_hierarchy) + /* + * We should check use_hierarchy of "mem" not "curr". Because checking + * use_hierarchy of "curr" here make this function true if hierarchy is + * enabled in "curr" and "curr" is a child of "mem" in *cgroup* + * hierarchy(even if use_hierarchy is disabled in "mem"). + */ + if (mem->use_hierarchy) ret = css_is_ancestor(&curr->css, &mem->css); else ret = (curr == mem); @@ -1009,7 +1015,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p) static char memcg_name[PATH_MAX]; int ret; - if (!memcg) + if (!memcg || !p) return; -- cgit v1.2.3