Consider the following memcg hierarchy. root / \ A B If we get the objcg of memcg A failed, the get_obj_cgroup_from_current can return the wrong objcg for the root memcg. Fixes: bf4f059954dc ("mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 1337775b04f3..fcbd79c5023e 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2945,7 +2945,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_obj(void *p) __always_inline struct obj_cgroup *get_obj_cgroup_from_current(void) { - struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL; + struct obj_cgroup *objcg; struct mem_cgroup *memcg; if (memcg_kmem_bypass()) @@ -2964,6 +2964,9 @@ __always_inline struct obj_cgroup *get_obj_cgroup_from_current(void) } rcu_read_unlock(); + if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup) + return NULL; + return objcg; } -- 2.20.1