Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: fix NULL pointer dereference in can_reclaim_anon_pages

[Sachin Sant]

> On 08-Sep-2023, at 3:01 PM, Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The variable sc is NULL pointer in can_reclaim_anon_pages() when called
> from zone_reclaimable_pages(). Check it before setting swapcache_only.
> 
> Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/F00144DE-2A3F-4463-8203-45E0D57E313E@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
> Fixes: 92039ae85e8d("mm: vmscan: try to reclaim swapcache pages if no swap space")
> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks for the fix. With this patch applied although I no longer run into
the reported crash the test program doesn’t complete. I have observed
hung task timeouts while running the program.

# ./min_free_kbytes
tst_test.c:1547: TINFO: Timeout per run is disabled
mem.c:648: TINFO: set overcommit_memory to 2
mem.c:648: TINFO: set min_free_kbytes to 31116
memfree is 58822592 kB before eatup mem
[  490.838676] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 10431, comm: min_free_kbytes, not enough memory for the allocation
memfree is 25224000 kB after eatup mem
mem.c:648: TINFO: set min_free_kbytes to 62232
memfree is 58794048 kB before eatup mem
[  493.789210] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 10807, comm: min_free_kbytes, not enough memory for the allocation
memfree is 25239232 kB after eatup mem
mem.c:648: TINFO: set min_free_kbytes to 1211553
memfree is 58777344 kB before eatup mem
[  496.736678] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 10943, comm: min_free_kbytes, not enough memory for the allocation
memfree is 25145600 kB after eatup mem
mem.c:648: TINFO: set overcommit_memory to 0
mem.c:648: TINFO: set min_free_kbytes to 31116
memfree is 58684864 kB before eatup mem
[  736.065807] INFO: task kworker/u260:0:178 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[  736.065833]       Tainted: G            E      6.5.0-next-20230907-dirty #16
[  736.065837] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[  736.065842] task:kworker/u260:0  state:D stack:0     pid:178   ppid:2      flags:0x00000000
[  736.065852] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:0)
[  736.065864] Call Trace:
[  736.065867] [c0000000080e32a0] [c0000000080e3500] 0xc0000000080e3500 (unreliable)
[  736.065875] [c0000000080e3450] [c00000000001fc9c] __switch_to+0x13c/0x220
[  736.065884] [c0000000080e34b0] [c000000000fec5b0] __schedule+0x260/0x7c0
[  736.065891] [c0000000080e3580] [c000000000fecb84] schedule+0x74/0x150
[  736.065897] [c0000000080e35f0] [c000000000fecce4] io_schedule+0x54/0x80
[  736.065902] [c0000000080e3620] [c0000000007fb1fc] rq_qos_wait+0xfc/0x1e0
[  736.065910] [c0000000080e36d0] [c0000000008278a4] wbt_wait+0xd4/0x170
[  736.065916] [c0000000080e3730] [c0000000007fab64] __rq_qos_throttle+0x54/0x80
[  736.065922] [c0000000080e3760] [c0000000007df0dc] blk_mq_get_new_requests+0xfc/0x270
[  736.065931] [c0000000080e37f0] [c0000000007e4e6c] blk_mq_submit_bio+0x37c/0x580
[  736.065937] [c0000000080e3850] [c0000000007cd830] __submit_bio+0x30/0x250
[  736.065944] [c0000000080e3880] [c0000000007ce110] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x140/0x260
[  736.065951] [c0000000080e38f0] [c000000000675a0c] iomap_submit_ioend+0x8c/0xf0
[  736.065959] [c0000000080e3930] [c00800000154fc20] xfs_vm_writepages+0xc8/0x140 [xfs]
[  736.066063] [c0000000080e39e0] [c0000000004768d0] do_writepages+0xc0/0x290
[  736.066070] [c0000000080e3a60] [c00000000061553c] __writeback_single_inode+0x6c/0x500
[  736.066076] [c0000000080e3ab0] [c0000000006160cc] writeback_sb_inodes+0x2dc/0x6d0
[  736.066081] [c0000000080e3bd0] [c000000000616544] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x84/0x1a0
[  736.066087] [c0000000080e3c40] [c0000000006169bc] wb_writeback+0x35c/0x4b0
[  736.066092] [c0000000080e3d00] [c000000000618274] wb_workfn+0x3a4/0x6f0
[  736.066097] [c0000000080e3e50] [c00000000018d4ec] process_one_work+0x1ec/0x4a0
[  736.066105] [c0000000080e3ef0] [c00000000018db5c] worker_thread+0x3bc/0x590
[  736.066112] [c0000000080e3f90] [c00000000019c2e8] kthread+0x138/0x140
[  736.066118] [c0000000080e3fe0] [c00000000000df98] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18

The system seems to lockup(atleast appears that way)  after few minutes. I cannot ssh to
the system. Killing the test program doesn’t appear to help. 
I have attached the console output.

There still seems to be some issue with the patch.

- Sachin

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