In kdump kernel, memcg usually is disabled with 'cgroup_disable=memory'
for saving memory. Now kdump kernel will always panic when dump vmcore
to local disk:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000ab8
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 598 Comm: makedumpfile Not tainted 5.3.0+ #26
Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 10/02/2018
RIP: 0010:mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath+0x38/0x140
Call Trace:
__set_page_dirty+0x52/0xc0
iomap_set_page_dirty+0x50/0x90
iomap_write_end+0x6e/0x270
iomap_write_actor+0xce/0x170
iomap_apply+0xba/0x11e
iomap_file_buffered_write+0x62/0x90
xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0xca/0x320 [xfs]
new_sync_write+0x12d/0x1d0
vfs_write+0xa5/0x1a0
ksys_write+0x59/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x59/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
And this will corrupt the 1st kernel too with 'cgroup_disable=memory'.
Via the trace and with debugging, it is pointing to commit 97b27821b4
("writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing") which introduced
this regression. Disabling memcg causes the null pointer dereference at
uninitialized data in function mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath().
Fix it by returning directly if memcg is disabled, but not trying to
record the foreign writebacks with dirty pages.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924141928.GD31919@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
Fixes: 97b27821b4 ("writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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