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Revert "kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection"
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When running ltp's oom test with kmemleak enabled, the below warning was
triggerred since kernel detects __GFP_NOFAIL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is
passed in:

  WARNING: CPU: 105 PID: 2138 at mm/page_alloc.c:4608 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c31/0x1d50
  Modules linked in: loop dax_pmem dax_pmem_core ip_tables x_tables xfs virtio_net net_failover virtio_blk failover ata_generic virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio libata
  CPU: 105 PID: 2138 Comm: oom01 Not tainted 5.2.0-next-20190710+ #7
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c31/0x1d50
  ...
   kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
   kmem_cache_alloc+0x2a7/0x3e0
   mempool_alloc_slab+0x2d/0x40
   mempool_alloc+0x118/0x2b0
   bio_alloc_bioset+0x19d/0x350
   get_swap_bio+0x80/0x230
   __swap_writepage+0x5ff/0xb20

The mempool_alloc_slab() clears __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, however kmemleak
has __GFP_NOFAIL set all the time due to d9570ee ("kmemleak:
allow to coexist with fault injection").  But, it doesn't make any sense
to have __GFP_NOFAIL and ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM specified at the same
time.

According to the discussion on the mailing list, the commit should be
reverted for short term solution.  Catalin Marinas would follow up with
a better solution for longer term.

The failure rate of kmemleak metadata allocation may increase in some
circumstances, but this should be expected side effect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563299431-111710-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: d9570ee ("kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yang Shi authored and torvalds committed Aug 3, 2019
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion mm/kmemleak.c
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/* GFP bitmask for kmemleak internal allocations */
#define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp) (((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC)) | \
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | \
__GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NOFAIL)
__GFP_NOWARN)

/* scanning area inside a memory block */
struct kmemleak_scan_area {
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