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> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index fb0717696895..dbb8805bf66c 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -2045,8 +2045,11 @@ int cgroup_do_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc) } ret = 0; - if (ctx->kfc.new_sb_created) + 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