This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/memcontrol.c: add missed css_put()
to the 5.4-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-memcontrol.c-add-missed-css_put.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3a98990ae2150277ed34d3b248c60e68bf2244b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:30:19 -0700
Subject: mm/memcontrol.c: add missed css_put()
From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3a98990ae2150277ed34d3b248c60e68bf2244b2 upstream.
We should put the css reference when memory allocation failed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200614122653.98829-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: f0a3a24b532d ("mm: memcg/slab: rework non-root kmem_cache lifecycle management")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2895,8 +2895,10 @@ static void memcg_schedule_kmem_cache_cr
return;
cw = kmalloc(sizeof(*cw), GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
- if (!cw)
+ if (!cw) {
+ css_put(&memcg->css);
return;
+ }
cw->memcg = memcg;
cw->cachep = cachep;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/mm-memcontrol.c-add-missed-css_put.patch
