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The OOM path sees sufficient margin under\nthe current limit and returns true without killing, while the writer still\ncompares usage against its stale target and records another OOM event.\n\nCheck the current limit at the start of each reclaim iteration and stop if\nit no longer matches the writer's target.\n\nReproducer:\n\nPopulate a cgroup with anonymous memory and disable swapping. Lower\nmemory.max from one open file, then restore it to \"max\" through another\nopen file after the new limit becomes visible.\n\nWithout the patch, the first writer remains blocked and repeatedly\nincrements the OOM event counter. With the patch, it returns normally.\n\nThis was not motivated by a reported production workload. We found it\nthrough automated randomized testing for our cgroup observability work\nand reduced it to the reproducer above.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T19:46:56.059+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-19T08:52:05.993+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n \"product\": \"Linux\",\n \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n \"programFiles\": [\n \"mm/memcontrol.c\"\n ],\n \"versions\": [\n {\n \"version\": \"b6e6edcfa40561e9c8abe5eecf1c96f8e5fd9c6f\",\n \"lessThan\": \"ebf762a393630d1582645be3f0fc22a674eb9122\",\n \"status\": \"affected\",\n \"versionType\": \"git\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": \"b6e6edcfa40561e9c8abe5eecf1c96f8e5fd9c6f\",\n \"lessThan\": \"4ea0617b9e46d26c0a3e5af00308ea1931cc545d\",\n \"status\": \"affected\",\n \"versionType\": \"git\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": 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