[Devel] [PATCH rh7 3/3] mm: memcg: use proper memcg in limit bypass

[Vladimir Davydov]

From: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>

Commit 84235de394d9 ("fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the
allocator") allowed __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to bypass the limit if they
fail to reclaim enough memory for the charge.  But because the main test
case was on a 3.2-based system, the patch missed the fact that on newer
kernels the charge function needs to return root_mem_cgroup when
bypassing the limit, and not NULL.  This will corrupt whatever memory is
at NULL + percpu pointer offset.  Fix this quickly before problems are
reported.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 3168ecbe1c04ec3feb7cb42388a17d7f047fe1a2)
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at parallels.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1433526f6bda..4bf6d3e736bf 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2967,10 +2967,10 @@ done:
 	*ptr = memcg;
 	return 0;
 nomem:
-	*ptr = NULL;
-	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
-		return 0;
-	return -ENOMEM;
+	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
+		*ptr = NULL;
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 bypass:
 	*ptr = root_mem_cgroup;
 	return -EINTR;
-- 
2.1.4