@@ -561,6 +561,12 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
/* mm cannot safely be dereferenced after task_unlock(victim) */
mm = victim->mm;
+ /*
+ * We should send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE in order to prevent
+ * the OOM victim from depleting the memory reserves from the user
+ * space under its control.
+ */
+ do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, victim, true);
mark_oom_victim(victim);
pr_err("Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB\n",
task_pid_nr(victim), victim->comm, K(victim->mm->total_vm),
@@ -592,7 +598,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, victim, true);
put_task_struct(victim);
}
#undef K
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled mm/oom_kill.c: reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 4fc323970ef10a303f4ffe63bebe1caecc548f72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:47:44 -0800 Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL commit 426fb5e72d92b868912e47a1e3ca2df6eabc3872 upstream. It was confirmed that a local unprivileged user can consume all memory reserves and hang up that system using time lag between the OOM killer sets TIF_MEMDIE on an OOM victim and sends SIGKILL to that victim, for printk() inside for_each_process() loop at oom_kill_process() can consume many seconds when there are many thread groups sharing the same memory. Before starting oom-depleter process: Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB (UM) 6*8kB (U) 4*16kB (UEM) 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB (M) 2*256kB (EM) 2*512kB (UE) 2*1024kB (EM) 1*2048kB (E) 1*4096kB (M) = 9980kB Node 0 DMA32: 31*4kB (UEM) 27*8kB (UE) 32*16kB (UE) 13*32kB (UE) 14*64kB (UM) 7*128kB (UM) 8*256kB (UM) 8*512kB (UM) 3*1024kB (U) 4*2048kB (UM) 362*4096kB (UM) = 1503220kB As of invoking the OOM killer: Node 0 DMA: 11*4kB (UE) 8*8kB (UEM) 6*16kB (UE) 2*32kB (EM) 0*64kB 1*128kB (U) 3*256kB (UEM) 2*512kB (UE) 3*1024kB (UEM) 1*2048kB (U) 0*4096kB = 7308kB Node 0 DMA32: 1049*4kB (UEM) 507*8kB (UE) 151*16kB (UE) 53*32kB (UEM) 83*64kB (UEM) 52*128kB (EM) 25*256kB (UEM) 11*512kB (M) 6*1024kB (UM) 1*2048kB (M) 0*4096kB = 44556kB Between the thread group leader got TIF_MEMDIE and receives SIGKILL: Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB Node 0 DMA32: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB The oom-depleter's thread group leader which got TIF_MEMDIE started memset() in user space after the OOM killer set TIF_MEMDIE, and it was free to abuse ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS by TIF_MEMDIE for memset() in user space until SIGKILL is delivered. If SIGKILL is delivered before TIF_MEMDIE is set, the oom-depleter can terminate without touching memory reserves. Although the possibility of hitting this time lag is very small for 3.19 and earlier kernels because TIF_MEMDIE is set immediately before sending SIGKILL, preemption or long interrupts (an extreme example is SysRq-t) can step between and allow memory allocations which are not needed for terminating the OOM victim. Fixes: 83363b917a29 ("oom: make sure that TIF_MEMDIE is set under task_lock") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.9.1