This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cgroup: Fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline to the 5.14-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: cgroup-fix-memory-leak-caused-by-missing-cgroup_bpf_offline.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 04f8ef5643bcd8bcde25dfdebef998aea480b2ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:56:23 +0800 Subject: cgroup: Fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline From: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 04f8ef5643bcd8bcde25dfdebef998aea480b2ba upstream. When enabling CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF, kmemleak can be observed by running the command as below: $mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup cgroup/ $umount cgroup/ unreferenced object 0xc3585c40 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 425, jiffies 4294959825 (age 31.990s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 80 84 8c 28 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......(......... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6c 43 a0 c3 00 00 00 00 ........lC...... backtrace: [<e95a2f9e>] cgroup_bpf_inherit+0x44/0x24c [<1f03679c>] cgroup_setup_root+0x174/0x37c [<ed4b0ac5>] cgroup1_get_tree+0x2c0/0x4a0 [<f85b12fd>] vfs_get_tree+0x24/0x108 [<f55aec5c>] path_mount+0x384/0x988 [<e2d5e9cd>] do_mount+0x64/0x9c [<208c9cfe>] sys_mount+0xfc/0x1f4 [<06dd06e0>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48 [<a8308cb3>] 0xbeb4daa8 This is because that since the commit 2b0d3d3e4fcf ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path") root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data is allocated by the function percpu_ref_init in cgroup_bpf_inherit which is called by cgroup_setup_root when mounting, but not freed along with root_cgrp when umounting. Adding cgroup_bpf_offline which calls percpu_ref_kill to cgroup_kill_sb can free root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data in umount path. This patch also fixes the commit 4bfc0bb2c60e ("bpf: decouple the lifetime of cgroup_bpf from cgroup itself"). A cgroup_bpf_offline is needed to do a cleanup that frees the resources which are allocated by cgroup_bpf_inherit in cgroup_setup_root. And inside cgroup_bpf_offline, cgroup_get() is at the beginning and cgroup_put is at the end of cgroup_bpf_release which is called by cgroup_bpf_offline. So cgroup_bpf_offline can keep the balance of cgroup's refcount. Fixes: 2b0d3d3e4fcf ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path") Fixes: 4bfc0bb2c60e ("bpf: decouple the lifetime of cgroup_bpf from cgroup itself") Signed-off-by: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211018075623.26884-1-quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -2174,8 +2174,10 @@ static void cgroup_kill_sb(struct super_ * And don't kill the default root. */ if (list_empty(&root->cgrp.self.children) && root != &cgrp_dfl_root && - !percpu_ref_is_dying(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) + !percpu_ref_is_dying(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) { + cgroup_bpf_offline(&root->cgrp); percpu_ref_kill(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt); + } cgroup_put(&root->cgrp); kernfs_kill_sb(sb); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.14/cgroup-fix-memory-leak-caused-by-missing-cgroup_bpf_offline.patch