The rcu_read_lock/unlock only can guarantee that the memcg will not be freed, but it cannot guarantee the success of css_get to memcg. This can be happened when we reparent the memcg. So using css_tryget instead of css_get. Fixes: bf4f059954dc ("mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index fcbd79c5023e..c0c27bee23ad 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3223,8 +3223,10 @@ int obj_cgroup_charge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, size_t size) * independently later. */ rcu_read_lock(); +retry: memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg); - css_get(&memcg->css); + if (!css_tryget(&memcg->css)) + goto retry; rcu_read_unlock(); nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT; -- 2.20.1