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author | Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> | 2023-04-12 00:34:51 +0000 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-04-18 16:30:09 -0700 |
commit | ec342603e6d7404c17936a6b53670c28355d3bc3 (patch) | |
tree | 600f0b920b0d2053aebda977de62c3d4d2cafe03 /crypto/sm4_generic.c | |
parent | 0b376f1e0ff555435597fa16823ae0f30b2883e3 (diff) |
memcg: page_cgroup_ino() get memcg from the page's folio
In a kernel with added WARN_ON_ONCE(PageTail) in page_memcg_check(), we
observed a warning from page_cgroup_ino() when reading /proc/kpagecgroup.
This warning was added to catch fragile reads of a page memcg. Make
page_cgroup_ino() get memcg from the page's folio using
folio_memcg_check(): that gives it the correct memcg for each page of a
folio, so is the right fix.
Note that page_folio() is racy, the page's folio can change from under us,
but the entire function is racy and documented as such.
I dithered between the right fix and the safer "fix": it's unlikely but
conceivable that some userspace has learnt that /proc/kpagecgroup gives no
memcg on tail pages, and compensates for that in some (racy) way: so
continuing to give no memcg on tails, without warning, might be safer.
But hwpoison_filter_task(), the only other user of page_cgroup_ino(),
persuaded me. It looks as if it currently leaves out tail pages of the
selected memcg, by mistake: whereas hwpoison_inject() uses compound_head()
and expects the tails to be included. So hwpoison testing coverage has
probably been restricted by the wrong output from page_cgroup_ino() (if
that memcg filter is used at all): in the short term, it might be safer
not to enable wider coverage there, but long term we would regret that.
This is based on a patch originally written by Hugh Dickins and retains
most of the original commit log [1]
The patch was changed to use folio_memcg_check(page_folio(page)) instead
of page_memcg_check(compound_head(page)) based on discussions with Matthew
Wilcox; where he stated that callers of page_memcg_check() should stop
using it due to the ambiguity around tail pages -- instead they should use
folio_memcg_check() and handle tail pages themselves.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230412003451.4018887-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230313083452.1319968-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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