[PATCH 5.2 100/131] mm: vmscan: check if mem cgroup is disabled or not before calling memcg slab shrinker

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Hadrava <had@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>	[4.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -684,7 +684,14 @@ 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))