Re: WARNING in try_charge

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon Aug 06 2018 - 05:31:01 EST


On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat 04-08-18 06:33:02, syzbot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> syzbot found the following crash on:
>>
>> HEAD commit: d1e0b8e0cb7a Add linux-next specific files for 20180725
>> git tree: linux-next
>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15a1c770400000
>> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=eef3552c897e4d33
>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bab151e82a4e973fa325
>> compiler: gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
>>
>> Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
>>
>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> Reported-by: syzbot+bab151e82a4e973fa325@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Killed process 23767 (syz-executor2) total-vm:70472kB, anon-rss:104kB,
>> file-rss:32768kB, shmem-rss:0kB
>> oom_reaper: reaped process 23767 (syz-executor2), now anon-rss:0kB,
>> file-rss:32000kB, shmem-rss:0kB
>
> More interesting stuff is higher in the kernel log
> : [ 366.435015] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/ile0,task_memcg=/ile0,task=syz-executor3,pid=23766,uid=0
> : [ 366.449416] memory: usage 112kB, limit 0kB, failcnt 1605
>
> Are you sure you want to have hard limit set to 0?

syzkaller really does not mind to have it.

> : [ 366.454963] memory+swap: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0
> : [ 366.461787] kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0
> : [ 366.467946] Memory cgroup stats for /ile0: cache:12KB rss:0KB rss_huge:0KB shmem:0KB mapped_file:0KB dirty:0KB writeback:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:0KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB
>
> There are only 3 pages charged to this memcg!
>
> : [ 366.487490] Tasks state (memory values in pages):
> : [ 366.492349] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name
> : [ 366.501237] [ 23766] 0 23766 17620 8221 126976 0 0 syz-executor3
> : [ 366.510367] [ 23767] 0 23767 17618 8218 126976 0 0 syz-executor2
> : [ 366.519409] Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 23766 (syz-executor3) score 8252000 or sacrifice child
> : [ 366.529422] Killed process 23766 (syz-executor3) total-vm:70480kB, anon-rss:116kB, file-rss:32768kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> : [ 366.540456] oom_reaper: reaped process 23766 (syz-executor3), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:32000kB, shmem-rss:0kB
>
> The oom reaper cannot reclaim file backed memory from a large part. I
> assume this is are shared mappings which are living outside of memcg
> because of the counter.
>
> : [...]
> : [ 367.085870] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/ile0,task_memcg=/ile0,task=syz-executor2,pid=23767,uid=0
> : [ 367.100073] memory: usage 112kB, limit 0kB, failcnt 1615
> : [ 367.105549] memory+swap: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0
> : [ 367.112428] kmem: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0
> : [ 367.118593] Memory cgroup stats for /ile0: cache:12KB rss:0KB rss_huge:0KB shmem:0KB mapped_file:0KB dirty:0KB writeback:0KB swap:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:0KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB
> : [ 367.138136] Tasks state (memory values in pages):
> : [ 367.142986] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name
> : [ 367.151889] [ 23766] 0 23766 17620 8002 126976 0 0 syz-executor3
> : [ 367.160946] [ 23767] 0 23767 17618 8218 126976 0 0 syz-executor2
> : [ 367.169994] Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 23767 (syz-executor2) score 8249000 or sacrifice child
> : [ 367.180119] Killed process 23767 (syz-executor2) total-vm:70472kB, anon-rss:104kB, file-rss:32768kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> : [ 367.192101] oom_reaper: reaped process 23767 (syz-executor2), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:32000kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> : [ 367.202986] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> : [ 367.207845] Memory cgroup charge failed because of no reclaimable memory! This looks like a misconfiguration or a kernel bug.
> : [ 367.207965] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 23767 at mm/memcontrol.c:1710 try_charge+0x734/0x1680
> : [ 367.227540] Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
>
> This is unexpected though. We have killed a task (23767) which is trying
> to charge the memory which means it should
> trigger the charge retry and that one should force the charge
>
> /*
> * Unlike in global OOM situations, memcg is not in a physical
> * memory shortage. Allow dying and OOM-killed tasks to
> * bypass the last charges so that they can exit quickly and
> * free their memory.
> */
> if (unlikely(tsk_is_oom_victim(current) ||
> fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
> current->flags & PF_EXITING))
> goto force;
>
> There doesn't seem to be any other sign of OOM killer invocation which
> could then indeed lead to the warning as there is no other task to kill
> (both syz-executor[23] have been killed and oom_reaped already). So I
> would be curious what happened between 367.180119 which was the last
> successful oom invocation and 367.207845. An additional printk in
> mem_cgroup_out_of_memory might tell us more.
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 4603ad75c9a9..852cd3dbdcd9 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1388,6 +1388,8 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> bool ret;
>
> mutex_lock(&oom_lock);
> + pr_info("task=%s pid=%d invoked memcg oom killer. oom_victim=%d\n",
> + current->comm, current->pid, tsk_is_oom_victim(current));
> ret = out_of_memory(&oc);
> mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
> return ret;
>
> Anyway your memcg setup is indeed misconfigured. Memcg with 0 hard limit
> and basically no memory charged by existing tasks is not going to fly
> and the warning is exactly to call that out.


Please-please-please do not mix kernel bugs and notices to user into
the same bucket:

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/949071/