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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-10-30 06:40:39 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-10-30 06:40:39 -0400
commitcbfff98a623df8d4e7c02d63d6448220cf0aec7c (patch)
tree1a02766ada2b9be9745d6028f80a801eff5b358a /mm/memcontrol.c
parentb65fba3d87216bfe6ae9bc77be5eb6eabb6514a4 (diff)
parenta909d3e636995ba7c349e2ca5dbb528154d4ac30 (diff)
Merge 4.9-rc3 into usb-next
We want the USB fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ae052b5e3315..0f870ba43942 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1917,6 +1917,15 @@ retry:
current->flags & PF_EXITING))
goto force;
+ /*
+ * Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to
+ * allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily,
+ * but we prefer facilitating memory reclaim and getting back
+ * under the limit over triggering OOM kills in these cases.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+ goto force;
+
if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
goto nomem;