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))