linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/2] mm: oom: expose expedite_reclaim to use oom_reaper outside of oom

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 06:12:27 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        willy@...radead.org, yuzhoujian@...ichuxing.com,
        jrdr.linux@...il.com, guro@...com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, shakeelb@...gle.com, christian@...uner.io,
        minchan@...nel.org, timmurray@...gle.com, dancol@...gle.com,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, jannh@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        lsf-pc@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] mm: oom: expose expedite_reclaim to use oom_reaper
 outside of oom_kill.c

On 2019/04/11 10:43, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 3a2484884cfd..6449710c8a06 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -1102,6 +1102,21 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
>  	return !!oc->chosen;
>  }
>  
> +bool expedite_reclaim(struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> +	bool res = false;
> +
> +	task_lock(task);
> +	if (task_will_free_mem(task)) {

mark_oom_victim() needs to be called under oom_lock mutex after
checking that oom_killer_disabled == false. Since you are trying
to trigger this function from signal handler, you might want to
defer until e.g. WQ context.

> +		mark_oom_victim(task);
> +		wake_oom_reaper(task);
> +		res = true;
> +	}
> +	task_unlock(task);
> +
> +	return res;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * The pagefault handler calls here because it is out of memory, so kill a
>   * memory-hogging task. If oom_lock is held by somebody else, a parallel oom
>