We should put the css reference when memory allocation failed. Fixes: f0a3a24b532d ("mm: memcg/slab: rework non-root kmem_cache lifecycle management") 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 0b38b6ad547d..2323d811ee8e 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2772,8 +2772,10 @@ static void memcg_schedule_kmem_cache_create(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, return; cw = kmalloc(sizeof(*cw), GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN); - if (!cw) + if (!cw) { + css_put(&memcg->css); return; + } cw->memcg = memcg; cw->cachep = cachep; -- 2.11.0