From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 22:16:06 -0700 > If a TCP socket is allocated in IRQ context or cloned from unassociated > (i.e. not associated to a memcg) in IRQ context then it will remain > unassociated for its whole life. Almost half of the TCPs created on the > system are created in IRQ context, so, memory used by such sockets will > not be accounted by the memcg. > > This issue is more widespread in cgroup v1 where network memory > accounting is opt-in but it can happen in cgroup v2 if the source socket > for the cloning was created in root memcg. > > To fix the issue, just do the association of the sockets at the accept() > time in the process context and then force charge the memory buffer > already used and reserved by the socket. > > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied and queued up for -stable.
