On Thu 02-06-16 21:20:03, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
[...]

Also, dmesg.xz in the crash report http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160601080209.GA7190@yexl-desktop
includes an interesting race.

[...]

The consecutive oom_reaper message on the same thread

----------
[   82.706724] oom_reaper: reaped process 3914 (trinity-c0), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:26488kB
[   82.715540] oom_reaper: reaped process 3914 (trinity-c0), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:26900kB
[   82.717662] oom_reaper: reaped process 3914 (trinity-c0), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:26900kB
[   82.725804] oom_reaper: reaped process 3914 (trinity-c0), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:27296kB
[   82.739091] oom_reaper: reaped process 3914 (trinity-c0), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:28148kB
----------

suggests that it repeated race that trinity-c0 called out_of_memory()
and hit the shortcut

	if (current->mm &&
	    (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current))) {
		mark_oom_victim(current);
		try_oom_reaper(current);
		return true;
	}

and got TIF_MEMDIE and woke up the OOM reaper. But the OOM reaper started
oom_reap_task() and cleared TIF_MEMDIE from trinity-c0 BEFORE trinity-c0
tries to allocate using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS via TIF_MEMDIE.

As a result, trinity-c0 was unable to use ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS and had to call
out_of_memory() again. And again hit the shortcut and got TIF_MEMDIE and woke
up the OOM reaper, the OOM reaper cleared TIF_MEMDIE. So, this set TIF_MEMDIE
followed by clear TIF_MEMDIE repetition lasted for several times. Maybe we
should not try to clear TIF_MEMDIE from the OOM reaper.

If we do not clear TIF_MEMDIE then we risk other issues. What we can do
instead is to check for MMF_OOM_REAPED in task_will_free_mem and do not
allow to bypass the oom killer. I will enahance the series which hammers
that code path with that check. Thanks for pointing this out!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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