From: Yang Shi <yang....@linux.alibaba.com>

commit fa1e512fac717f34e7c12d7a384c46e90a647392 upstream.

Shakeel Butt reported premature oom on kernel with
"cgroup_disable=memory" since mem_cgroup_is_root() returns false even
though memcg is actually NULL.  The drop_caches is also broken.

It is because commit aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize
shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()") removed the !memcg check before
!mem_cgroup_is_root().  And, surprisingly root memcg is allocated even
though memory cgroup is disabled by kernel boot parameter.

Add mem_cgroup_disabled() check to make reclaimer work as expected.

Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563385526-20805-1-git-send-email-yang....@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in 
shrink_node()")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang....@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shake...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shake...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Cc: Jan Hadrava <h...@kam.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov....@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>    [4.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -670,7 +670,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t g
        unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
        struct shrinker *shrinker;
 
-       if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
+       /*
+        * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled
+        * via "cgroup_disable=memory" boot parameter.  This could make
+        * mem_cgroup_is_root() return false, then just run memcg slab
+        * shrink, but skip global shrink.  This may result in premature
+        * oom.
+        */
+       if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
                return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority);
 
        if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))


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