The patch titled
Subject: memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure.
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
memcg-avoid-dangling-reference-count-in-creation-failure.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure.
When use_hierarchy is enabled, we acquire an extra reference count in our
parent during cgroup creation. We don't release it, though, if any
failure exist in the creation process.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-avoid-dangling-reference-count-in-creation-failure mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-avoid-dangling-reference-count-in-creation-failure
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6196,6 +6196,8 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *con
* call __mem_cgroup_free, so return directly
*/
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
+ if (parent->use_hierarchy)
+ mem_cgroup_put(parent);
}
return error;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
slub-correctly-bootstrap-boot-caches.patch
memcg-debugging-facility-to-access-dangling-memcgs.patch
memcg-debugging-facility-to-access-dangling-memcgs-fix.patch
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