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Commit 4e54dede authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: fix low limit calculation

A memcg is considered low limited even when the current usage is equal to
the low limit.  This leads to interesting side effects e.g.
groups/hierarchies with no memory accounted are considered protected and
so the reclaim will emit MEMCG_LOW event when encountering them.

Another and much bigger issue was reported by Joonsoo Kim.  He has hit a
NULL ptr dereference with the legacy cgroup API which even doesn't have
low limit exposed.  The limit is 0 by default but the initial check fails
for memcg with 0 consumption and parent_mem_cgroup() would return NULL if
use_hierarchy is 0 and so page_counter_read would try to dereference NULL.

I suppose that the current implementation is just an overlook because the
documentation in Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt says:

  "The memory.low boundary on the other hand is a top-down allocated
  reserve.  A cgroup enjoys reclaim protection when it and all its
  ancestors are below their low boundaries"

Fix the usage and the low limit comparision in mem_cgroup_low accordingly.

Fixes: 241994ed

 (mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory)
Reported-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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