Why is memcg's swap accounting so broken? Insane counts, wrong ownership, unfreeable structures, which later get freed and then accessed after free. Turns out to be a tiny a little 3.3-rc1 regression in 9fb4b7cc0724 "page_cgroup: add helper function to get swap_cgroup": the helper function (actually named lookup_swap_cgroup()) returns an address using void* arithmetic, but the structure in question is a short. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_cgroup.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 3.3-rc6/mm/page_cgroup.c 2012-01-20 08:42:35.320020840 -0800 +++ linux/mm/page_cgroup.c 2012-03-05 19:51:13.535372098 -0800 @@ -379,13 +379,15 @@ static struct swap_cgroup *lookup_swap_c pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(ent); struct swap_cgroup_ctrl *ctrl; struct page *mappage; + struct swap_cgroup *sc; ctrl = &swap_cgroup_ctrl[swp_type(ent)]; if (ctrlp) *ctrlp = ctrl; mappage = ctrl->map[offset / SC_PER_PAGE]; - return page_address(mappage) + offset % SC_PER_PAGE; + sc = page_address(mappage); + return sc + offset % SC_PER_PAGE; } /** -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>