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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index e3aff0175d4..f6a63f5b382 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -6355,6 +6355,42 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) static void mem_cgroup_css_free(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); + /* + * XXX: css_offline() would be where we should reparent all + * memory to prepare the cgroup for destruction. However, + * memcg does not do css_tryget() and res_counter charging + * under the same RCU lock region, which means that charging + * could race with offlining. Offlining only happens to + * cgroups with no tasks in them but charges can show up + * without any tasks from the swapin path when the target + * memcg is looked up from the swapout record and not from the + * current task as it usually is. A race like this can leak + * charges and put pages with stale cgroup pointers into + * circulation: + * + * #0 #1 + * lookup_swap_cgroup_id() + * rcu_read_lock() + * mem_cgroup_lookup() + * css_tryget() + * rcu_read_unlock() + * disable css_tryget() + * call_rcu() + * offline_css() + * reparent_charges() + * res_counter_charge() + * css_put() + * css_free() + * pc->mem_cgroup = dead memcg + * add page to lru + * + * The bulk of the charges are still moved in offline_css() to + * avoid pinning a lot of pages in case a long-term reference + * like a swapout record is deferring the css_free() to long + * after offlining. But this makes sure we catch any charges + * made after offlining: + */ + mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(memcg); memcg_destroy_kmem(memcg); __mem_cgroup_free(memcg); |