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 v3: fix a reference leak when kernfs_node_dentry fails v4: call deactivate_locked_super() in a error case kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index fb0717696895..309c8507fe6c 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -2019,7 +2019,7 @@ int cgroup_do_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc) ret = kernfs_get_tree(fc); if (ret < 0) - goto out_cgrp; + return ret; /* * In non-init cgroup namespace, instead of root cgroup's dentry, @@ -2038,19 +2038,28 @@ int cgroup_do_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc) mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); nsdentry = kernfs_node_dentry(cgrp->kn, fc->root->d_sb); - if (IS_ERR(nsdentry)) - return PTR_ERR(nsdentry); + if (IS_ERR(nsdentry)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(nsdentry); + goto out_cgrp; + } dput(fc->root); fc->root = nsdentry; } ret = 0; - if (ctx->kfc.new_sb_created) - goto out_cgrp; - apply_cgroup_root_flags(ctx->flags); - return 0; + if (!ctx->kfc.new_sb_created) + apply_cgroup_root_flags(ctx->flags); out_cgrp: + if (!ctx->kfc.new_sb_created) + cgroup_put(&ctx->root->cgrp); + + if (unlikely(ret)) { + dput(fc->root); + deactivate_locked_super(fc->root->d_sb); + fc->root = NULL; + } + return ret; } -- 2.17.2