Re: [PATCH] mm,oom_reaper: avoid run queue_oom_reaper if task is not oom

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:46:44 +0000 gaoxu <gaoxu2@hihonor.com> wrote:

> The function queue_oom_reaper tests and sets tsk->signal->oom_mm->flags.
> However, it is necessary to check if 'tsk' is an OOM victim before
> executing 'queue_oom_reaper' because the variable may be NULL.
> 
> We encountered such an issue, and the log is as follows:
> [3701:11_see]Out of memory: Killed process 3154 (system_server)
> total-vm:23662044kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB,
> UID:1000 pgtables:4056kB oom_score_adj:-900
> [3701:11_see][RB/E]rb_sreason_str_set: sreason_str set null_pointer
> [3701:11_see][RB/E]rb_sreason_str_set: sreason_str set unknown_addr
> [3701:11_see]Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 0000000000000328

Well that isn't good.  How frequently does this happen and can you
suggest why some quite old code is suddenly causing problems?  What is
your workload doing that others' do not do?

> [3701:11_see]user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000821de000
> [3701:11_see][0000000000000328] pgd=0000000000000000,
> p4d=0000000000000000,pud=0000000000000000
> [3701:11_see]tracing off
> [3701:11_see]Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [3701:11_see]Call trace:
> [3701:11_see] queue_oom_reaper+0x30/0x170
> [3701:11_see] __oom_kill_process+0x590/0x860
> [3701:11_see] oom_kill_process+0x140/0x274
> [3701:11_see] out_of_memory+0x2f4/0x54c
> [3701:11_see] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x5d8/0xaac
> [3701:11_see] __alloc_pages+0x774/0x800
> [3701:11_see] wp_page_copy+0xc4/0x116c
> [3701:11_see] do_wp_page+0x4bc/0x6fc
> [3701:11_see] handle_pte_fault+0x98/0x2a8
> [3701:11_see] __handle_mm_fault+0x368/0x700
> [3701:11_see] do_handle_mm_fault+0x160/0x2cc
> [3701:11_see] do_page_fault+0x3e0/0x818
> [3701:11_see] do_mem_abort+0x68/0x17c
> [3701:11_see] el0_da+0x3c/0xa0
> [3701:11_see] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0xec
> [3701:11_see] el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8
> [3701:11_see]tracing off
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xu <gaoxu2@hihonor.com>

I'll queue this for -stable backporting, assuming review is agreeable. 
Can we please identify a suitable Fixes: target to tell -stable
maintainers which kernels need the fix?  It looks like this goes back a
long way.