> Well, but we can't do this. And "as expected" is actually just wrong. I still
> think that the whole FAULT_FLAG_USER logic is not right. This needs another
> email.
I meant as expected from the content of the patch :) I think
Konstantin agrees that this patch cannot be merged upstream.
> fork() should not fail because there is a memory hog in the same memcg. Worse,
> pthread_create() can kill the caller by the same reason. And we have the same
> or even worse problem with ->clear_child_tid, pthread_join() can hang forever.
> Unlikely we want to kill the application in this case ;)
>
> And in fact I think that the problem has nothing to do with
> set/claer_child_tid
> in particular.
>
> I am just curious... can you reproduce the problem reliably? If yes, can you
> try
> the patch below ? Just in case, this is not the real fix in any case...
Yes. It deterministically results in hung processes in vanilla kernel.
I'll try this patch.
> --- x/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ x/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2793,8 +2793,11 @@ asmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(struct
> task_struct *prev)
> balance_callback(rq);
> preempt_enable();
>
> - if (current->set_child_tid)
> + if (current->set_child_tid) {
> + mem_cgroup_oom_enable();
> put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current->set_child_tid);
> + mem_cgroup_oom_disable();
> + }
> }
>
> /*
>
