It looks like the c6b3d5bcd67c ("cgroup: fix top cgroup refcnt leak") commit was reverted by mistake. $ mkdir /tmp/cgroup $ mkdir /tmp/cgroup2 $ mount -t cgroup -o none,name=test test /tmp/cgroup $ mount -t cgroup -o none,name=test test /tmp/cgroup2 $ umount /tmp/cgroup $ umount /tmp/cgroup2 $ cat /proc/self/cgroup | grep test 12:name=test:/ You can see the test cgroup was not freed. Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: aea3f2676c83 ("kernfs, sysfs, cgroup, intel_rdt: Support fs_context") Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: clean up code and add the vfs/for-next tag kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index fb0717696895..f63974a3725f 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -2047,6 +2047,9 @@ int cgroup_do_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc) ret = 0; if (ctx->kfc.new_sb_created) goto out_cgrp; + else + cgroup_put(&ctx->root->cgrp); + apply_cgroup_root_flags(ctx->flags); return 0; -- 2.17.2