On 13.04.2018 11:55, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 12-04-18 17:52:04, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > [...] >> @@ -4471,6 +4477,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css) >> >> return &memcg->css; >> fail: >> + mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg); >> mem_cgroup_free(memcg); >> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); >> } > > The only path which jumps to fail: here (in the current mmotm tree) is > error = memcg_online_kmem(memcg); > if (error) > goto fail; > > AFAICS and the only failure path in memcg_online_kmem > memcg_id = memcg_alloc_cache_id(); > if (memcg_id < 0) > return memcg_id; > > I am not entirely clear on memcg_alloc_cache_id but it seems we do clean > up properly. Or am I missing something? memcg_alloc_cache_id() may allocate a lot of memory, in case of the system reached memcg_nr_cache_ids cgroups. In this case it iterates over all LRU lists, and double size of every of them. In case of memory pressure it can fail. If this occurs, mem_cgroup::id is not unhashed from IDR and we leak this id. After further iterations, all IDs may be occupied, and there won't be able to create a memcg in the system ever. You may reproduce the situation with the patch: [root@localhost ~]# cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ [root@localhost memory]# mkdir 1 mkdir: cannot create directory `1': Cannot allocate memory [root@localhost memory]# for i in {1..65535}; do mkdir 1 2>/dev/null; done [root@localhost memory]# mkdir 1 mkdir: cannot create directory `1': No space left on device diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 3e7942c301a8..5e17bfee9e6f 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2156,6 +2156,7 @@ static int memcg_alloc_cache_id(void) err = memcg_update_all_caches(size); if (!err) err = memcg_update_all_list_lrus(size); + err = -ENOMEM; if (!err) memcg_nr_cache_ids = size; @@ -4422,7 +4423,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css) { struct mem_cgroup *parent = mem_cgroup_from_css(parent_css); struct mem_cgroup *memcg; - long error = -ENOMEM; + long error = -ENOSPC; memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc(); if (!memcg) ENOSPC was added to the second hunk to show that the function fails on IDR allocation. Kirill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html