This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm, memcg: fix error return value of mem_cgroup_css_alloc()
to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-memcg-fix-error-return-value-of-mem_cgroup_css_alloc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 11d6761218d19ca06ae5387f4e3692c4fa9e7493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 18:35:43 -0700
Subject: mm, memcg: fix error return value of mem_cgroup_css_alloc()
From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 11d6761218d19ca06ae5387f4e3692c4fa9e7493 upstream.
When I run my memcg testcase which creates lots of memcgs, I found
there're unexpected out of memory logs while there're still enough
available free memory. The error log is
mkdir: cannot create directory 'foo.65533': Cannot allocate memory
The reason is when we try to create more than MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX memcgs,
an -ENOMEM errno will be set by mem_cgroup_css_alloc(), but the right
errno should be -ENOSPC "No space left on device", which is an
appropriate errno for userspace's failed mkdir.
As the errno really misled me, we should make it right. After this
patch, the error log will be
mkdir: cannot create directory 'foo.65533': No space left on device
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: s/EBUSY/ENOSPC/, per Michal]
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: s/EBUSY/ENOSPC/, per Michal]
Fixes: 73f576c04b94 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs")
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407063621.GA18914@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1586192163-20099-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4977,19 +4977,22 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all
unsigned int size;
int node;
int __maybe_unused i;
+ long error = -ENOMEM;
size = sizeof(struct mem_cgroup);
size += nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_per_node *);
memcg = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!memcg)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
memcg->id.id = idr_alloc(&mem_cgroup_idr, NULL,
1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX,
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (memcg->id.id < 0)
+ if (memcg->id.id < 0) {
+ error = memcg->id.id;
goto fail;
+ }
memcg->vmstats_local = alloc_percpu(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu);
if (!memcg->vmstats_local)
@@ -5033,7 +5036,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all
fail:
mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg);
__mem_cgroup_free(memcg);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
}
static struct cgroup_subsys_state * __ref
@@ -5044,8 +5047,8 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy
long error = -ENOMEM;
memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc();
- if (!memcg)
- return ERR_PTR(error);
+ if (IS_ERR(memcg))
+ return ERR_CAST(memcg);
memcg->high = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
@@ -5095,7 +5098,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy
fail:
mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg);
mem_cgroup_free(memcg);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
}
static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.6/mm-memcg-fix-error-return-value-of-mem_cgroup_css_alloc.patch
