Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc which may return null if called with __GFP_NOFAIL

[Barry Song]

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 8:32 PM Barry Song <21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 8:21 PM Hailong Liu <hailong.liu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 09. May 09:48, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Wed 08-05-24 20:58:08, hailong.liu@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > From: "Hailong.Liu" <hailong.liu@xxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Commit a421ef303008 ("mm: allow !GFP_KERNEL allocations for kvmalloc")
> > > > includes support for __GFP_NOFAIL, but it presents a conflict with
> > > > commit dd544141b9eb ("vmalloc: back off when the current task is
> > > > OOM-killed"). A possible scenario is as belows:
> > > >
> > > > process-a
> > > > kvcalloc(n, m, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL)
> > > >     __vmalloc_node_range()
> > > >     __vmalloc_area_node()
> > > >         vm_area_alloc_pages()
> > > >             --> oom-killer send SIGKILL to process-a
> > > >             if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) break;
> > > > --> return NULL;
> > > >
> > > > to fix this, do not check fatal_signal_pending() in vm_area_alloc_pages()
> > > > if __GFP_NOFAIL set.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Oven <liyangouwen1@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Hailong.Liu <hailong.liu@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> > > > index 6641be0ca80b..2f359d08bf8d 100644
> > > > --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> > > > +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> > > > @@ -3560,7 +3560,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
> > > >
> > > >     /* High-order pages or fallback path if "bulk" fails. */
> > > >     while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) {
> > > > -           if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> > > > +           if (!(gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL) && fatal_signal_pending(current))
> > >
> > > Use nofail instead of gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL.
> > >
> > > Other than that looks good to me. After that is fixed, please feel free
> > > to add Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I believe this should also have Fixes: 9376130c390a ("mm/vmalloc: add support for __GFP_NOFAIL")
> > > --
> > > Michal Hocko
> > > SUSE Labs
> >
> > Thanks for the review and the Ack!
> >
> > Add Fixes in V2 patch.
> >
> > IIUC, nofail could not used for this case.
> >
> >         /*
> >          * For order-0 pages we make use of bulk allocator, if
> >          * the page array is partly or not at all populated due
> >          * to fails, fallback to a single page allocator that is
> >          * more permissive.
> >          */
> >         if (!order) {
> >                 /* bulk allocator doesn't support nofail req. officially */
> >                 xxx
> > -> nofail = false;
>
> isn't it another bug that needs a fix?

Upon further examination, it's not a bug, but we can still utilize 'nofail'.
The current code is very hard to read about gfp and "nofail" :-)

maybe:

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 6641be0ca80b..7c66fe16c2ad 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3498,7 +3498,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 {
        unsigned int nr_allocated = 0;
        gfp_t alloc_gfp = gfp;
-       bool nofail = false;
+       bool nofail = !!(gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL);
        struct page *page;
        int i;

@@ -3555,7 +3555,6 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
                 * and compaction etc.
                 */
                alloc_gfp &= ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
-               nofail = true;
        }

        /* High-order pages or fallback path if "bulk" fails. */

>
> >         } else if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
> >                 /*
> >                  * Higher order nofail allocations are really expensive and
> >                  * potentially dangerous (pre-mature OOM, disruptive reclaim
> >                  * and compaction etc.
> >                  */
> >                 alloc_gfp &= ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
> >                 nofail = true;
> >         }
> >
> >         /* High-order pages or fallback path if "bulk" fails. */
> >         while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) {
> >
> > -> nofail is false here if bulk allocator fails.
> >                 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> >                         break;
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Hailong.