Merge tag 'v4.4.33' into dev-4.4openbmc-4.4-20161121-1dev-4.4

This is the 4.4.33 stable release

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6b90d184e9c0..5d9c8a3136bc 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2055,6 +2055,15 @@ 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;