linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [cgroups?] [mm?] WARNING in memcg1

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Message-ID: <aW_xUoiCM6Po1Pm0@linux.dev>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:20:42 -0800
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@...il.com>, 
	syzbot <syzbot+079a3b213add54dd18a7@...kaller.appspotmail.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-mm@...ck.org, mhocko@...nel.org, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, 
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, 
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [cgroups?] [mm?] WARNING in memcg1_swapout

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 12:53:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:31:43 +0530 Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > > >
> > > > That's
> > > >
> > > >         VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(oldid != 0);
> > > >
> > > > which was added by Deepanshu's "mm/swap_cgroup: fix kernel BUG in
> > > > swap_cgroup_record".
> > > >
> > > > This patch has Fixes: 1a4e58cce84e ("mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT"),
> > > > which is six years old.  For some reason it has no cc:stable.
> > > >
> > > > Deepanshu's patch has no reviews.
> > > >
> > > > So can I please do the memcg maintainer summoning dance here?  We have a
> > > > repeatable BUG happening in mainline Linux.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > I checked the git blame output for commit 0f853ca2a798:
> > >
> > > Line 763: memcg1_swapout(folio, swap);
> > > Line 764: __swap_cache_del_folio(ci, folio, swap, shadow);
> > >                     (d7a7b2f91f36b - Kairui Song, 2026-01-13 02:33:36 +0800)
> > >
> > > Kairui's reordering patch appears to have been merged on Jan 13.
> 
> Eek, there are many patches, it helps to identify them carefully.
> 
> I think you're referring to
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-swap-use-swap-cache-as-the-swap-in-synchronize-layer-fix.patch
> 
> > > The syzbot report is also from Jan 13, likely from earlier in the
> > > day before the reordering patch was merged.
> > >
> > > So this report is from before the fix. The warning should not appear
> > > in linux-next builds after Jan 13.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Deepanshu
> > 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > I tested with the latest linux-next in sysbot. It is working fine
> 
> Great, thanks.  But we still don't have review for this one.
> 
> For some reason I don't have cc:stable on this - could people
> make a recommendation?
> 

I will get to this in couple of days (hopefully sooner). I think
Johannes was looking into this as well.