linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 54/59] Revert "kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection"

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Date:   Tue,  6 Aug 2019 17:33:14 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 54/59] Revert "kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection"

From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>

[ Upstream commit df9576def004d2cd5beedc00cb6e8901427634b9 ]

When running ltp's oom test with kmemleak enabled, the below warning was
triggerred since kernel detects __GFP_NOFAIL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is
passed in:

  WARNING: CPU: 105 PID: 2138 at mm/page_alloc.c:4608 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c31/0x1d50
  Modules linked in: loop dax_pmem dax_pmem_core ip_tables x_tables xfs virtio_net net_failover virtio_blk failover ata_generic virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio libata
  CPU: 105 PID: 2138 Comm: oom01 Not tainted 5.2.0-next-20190710+ #7
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c31/0x1d50
  ...
   kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
   kmem_cache_alloc+0x2a7/0x3e0
   mempool_alloc_slab+0x2d/0x40
   mempool_alloc+0x118/0x2b0
   bio_alloc_bioset+0x19d/0x350
   get_swap_bio+0x80/0x230
   __swap_writepage+0x5ff/0xb20

The mempool_alloc_slab() clears __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, however kmemleak
has __GFP_NOFAIL set all the time due to d9570ee3bd1d4f2 ("kmemleak:
allow to coexist with fault injection").  But, it doesn't make any sense
to have __GFP_NOFAIL and ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM specified at the same
time.

According to the discussion on the mailing list, the commit should be
reverted for short term solution.  Catalin Marinas would follow up with
a better solution for longer term.

The failure rate of kmemleak metadata allocation may increase in some
circumstances, but this should be expected side effect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563299431-111710-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: d9570ee3bd1d4f2 ("kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 3e147ea831826..3afb01bce736a 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 /* GFP bitmask for kmemleak internal allocations */
 #define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp)	(((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC)) | \
 				 __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | \
-				 __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NOFAIL)
+				 __GFP_NOWARN)

 /* scanning area inside a memory block */
 struct kmemleak_scan_area {
-- 
2.20.1