Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memcontrol: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()

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On Sat 27-07-19 07:47:58, Miles Chen wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 14:55 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > > I am sorry, I didn't get to comment an earlier version but I am
> > > wondering whether it makes more sense to do and explicit invalidation.
> > > 
> 
> I think we should keep the original v2 version, the reason is the 
> !use_hierarchy does not imply we can reach root_mem_cgroup:
> 
> cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0
> mkdir 1
> cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/1
> echo 1 > memory.use_hierarchy // only 1 and its children has
> use_hierarchy set
> mkdir 2
> 
> rmdir 2 // parent_mem_cgroup(2) goes up to 1

You are right I have missed this case. I am not sure anybody is using
layout like that but your fix is more robust and catches that case as
well.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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