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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2013-07-08 16:00:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-09 10:33:24 -0700
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memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path
mem_cgroup_css_online calls mem_cgroup_put if memcg_init_kmem fails. This is not correct because only memcg_propagate_kmem takes an additional reference while mem_cgroup_sockets_init is allowed to fail as well (although no current implementation fails) but it doesn't take any reference. This all suggests that it should be memcg_propagate_kmem that should clean up after itself so this patch moves mem_cgroup_put over there. Unfortunately this is not that easy (as pointed out by Li Zefan) because memcg_kmem_mark_dead marks the group dead (KMEM_ACCOUNTED_DEAD) if it is marked active (KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE) which is the case even if memcg_propagate_kmem fails so the additional reference is dropped in that case in kmem_cgroup_destroy which means that the reference would be dropped two times. The easiest way then would be to simply remove mem_cgrroup_put from mem_cgroup_css_online and rely on kmem_cgroup_destroy doing the right thing. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.8] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6b73d8657d64..bdeb82ca6c20 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6345,14 +6345,6 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *cont)
error = memcg_init_kmem(memcg, &mem_cgroup_subsys);
mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex);
- if (error) {
- /*
- * We call put now because our (and parent's) refcnts
- * are already in place. mem_cgroup_put() will internally
- * call __mem_cgroup_free, so return directly
- */
- mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
- }
return error;
}