Re: WARNING in try_charge

[Johannes Weiner]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 10:57:43PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> From b1f38168f14397c7af9c122cd8207663d96e02ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:49:40 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] mm, oom: task_will_free_mem(current) should retry until
>  memory reserve fails
> 
> Commit 696453e66630ad45 ("mm, oom: task_will_free_mem should skip
> oom_reaped tasks") changed to select next OOM victim as soon as
> MMF_OOM_SKIP is set. But we don't need to select next OOM victim as
> long as ALLOC_OOM allocation can succeed. And syzbot is hitting WARN(1)
> caused by this race window [1].

Huh? That's the memcg path, it has nothing to do with ALLOC_OOM.

> Since memcg OOM case uses forced charge if current thread is killed,
> out_of_memory() can return true without selecting next OOM victim.
> Therefore, this patch changes task_will_free_mem(current) to ignore
> MMF_OOM_SKIP unless ALLOC_OOM allocation failed.

I have no idea how the first and the second half of this paragraph go
together. They're completely independent code paths.