Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "20 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grumain.c: remove bogus 0x prefix from printk
  cris/arch-v32: cryptocop: print a hex number after a 0x prefix
  ipack: print a hex number after a 0x prefix
  block: DAC960: print a hex number after a 0x prefix
  fs: exofs: print a hex number after a 0x prefix
  lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk
  mm: memcontrol: do not recurse in direct reclaim
  CREDITS: update credit information for Martin Kepplinger
  proc: fix NULL dereference when reading /proc/<pid>/auxv
  mm: kmemleak: ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning
  lib/stackdepot.c: bump stackdepot capacity from 16MB to 128MB
  latent_entropy: raise CONFIG_FRAME_WARN by default
  kconfig.h: remove config_enabled() macro
  ipc: account for kmem usage on mqueue and msg
  mm/slab: improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats
  mm: page_alloc: use KERN_CONT where appropriate
  mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref
  h8300: fix syscall restarting
  kcov: properly check if we are in an interrupt
  mm/slab: fix kmemcg cache creation delayed issue

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

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;