As reference counting in the root memcg is disabled, there is no need to get a reference if root memcg is to be returned. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 5b009b233ab8..2b3864194042 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1060,8 +1060,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) rcu_read_lock(); do { memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner)); - if (unlikely(!memcg)) + if (unlikely(!memcg)) { memcg = root_mem_cgroup; + break; + } } while (!css_tryget(&memcg->css)); rcu_read_unlock(); return memcg; -- 2.39.3