The rcu_read_lock/unlock only can guarantee that the memcg will
not be freed, but it cannot guarantee the success of css_get to
memcg. This can be happened when we reparent the memcg. So using
css_tryget instead of css_get.
Fixes: bf4f059954dc ("mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API")
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 fcbd79c5023e..c0c27bee23ad 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3223,8 +3223,10 @@ int obj_cgroup_charge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, size_t size)
* independently later.
*/
rcu_read_lock();
+retry:
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
- css_get(&memcg->css);
+ if (!css_tryget(&memcg->css))
+ goto retry;
rcu_read_unlock();
nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
--
2.20.1
