On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 3:39 PM Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 07:44:16PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > +/* Mostly runs from irq_work except __init phase. */
> > +static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, int cnt, int node)
> > +{
> > + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL, *old_memcg;
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > + void *obj;
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + memcg = get_memcg(c);
> > + old_memcg = set_active_memcg(memcg);
> > + for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> > + obj = __alloc(c, node);
> > + if (!obj)
> > + break;
> > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> > + /* In RT irq_work runs in per-cpu kthread, so disable
> > + * interrupts to avoid preemption and interrupts and
> > + * reduce the chance of bpf prog executing on this cpu
> > + * when active counter is busy.
> > + */
> > + local_irq_save(flags);
> > + if (local_inc_return(&c->active) == 1) {
> Is it because it is always '== 1' here so that there is
> no need to free the obj when it is '!= 1' ?
Great catch. It's a bug indeed.
