On Thu 12-04-18 17:52:04, Kirill Tkhai wrote: [...] > @@ -4471,6 +4477,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css) > > return &memcg->css; > fail: > + mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg); > mem_cgroup_free(memcg); > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > } The only path which jumps to fail: here (in the current mmotm tree) is error = memcg_online_kmem(memcg); if (error) goto fail; AFAICS and the only failure path in memcg_online_kmem memcg_id = memcg_alloc_cache_id(); if (memcg_id < 0) return memcg_id; I am not entirely clear on memcg_alloc_cache_id but it seems we do clean up properly. Or am I missing something? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs