The quilt patch titled Subject: mm, memcg: prevent memory.soft_limit_in_bytes load/store tearing has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-memcg-prevent-memorysoft_limit_in_bytes-load-store-tearing.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yue Zhao <findns94@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, memcg: Prevent memory.soft_limit_in_bytes load/store tearing Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 23:41:38 +0800 The knob for cgroup v1 memory controller: memory.soft_limit_in_bytes is not protected by any locking so it can be modified while it is used. This is not an actual problem because races are unlikely. But it is better to use [READ|WRITE]_ONCE to prevent compiler from doing anything funky. The access of memcg->soft_limit is lockless, so it can be concurrently set at the same time as we are trying to read it. All occurrences of memcg->soft_limit are updated with [READ|WRITE]_ONCE. [findns94@xxxxxxxxx: v3] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308162555.14195-5-findns94@xxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230306154138.3775-5-findns94@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yue Zhao <findns94@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tang Yizhou <tangyeechou@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-prevent-memorysoft_limit_in_bytes-load-store-tearing +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3728,7 +3728,7 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read_u64(struct cg case RES_FAILCNT: return counter->failcnt; case RES_SOFT_LIMIT: - return (u64)memcg->soft_limit * PAGE_SIZE; + return (u64)READ_ONCE(memcg->soft_limit) * PAGE_SIZE; default: BUG(); } @@ -3870,7 +3870,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct k if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) { ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; } else { - memcg->soft_limit = nr_pages; + WRITE_ONCE(memcg->soft_limit, nr_pages); ret = 0; } break; @@ -5347,7 +5347,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy return ERR_CAST(memcg); page_counter_set_high(&memcg->memory, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); - memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; + WRITE_ONCE(memcg->soft_limit, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); #if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) && defined(CONFIG_ZSWAP) memcg->zswap_max = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; #endif @@ -5502,7 +5502,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0); page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0); page_counter_set_high(&memcg->memory, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); - memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; + WRITE_ONCE(memcg->soft_limit, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); page_counter_set_high(&memcg->swap, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from findns94@xxxxxxxxx are