From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit ce48225fe3b1b0d1fc9fceb96ac3d8a879e45114 upstream. Commit 0eef615665ed ("memcg: fix css reference leak and endless loop in mem_cgroup_iter") got the interaction with the commit a few before it d8ad30559715 ("mm/memcg: iteration skip memcgs not yet fully initialized") slightly wrong, and we didn't notice at the time. It's elusive, and harder to get than the original, but for a couple of days before rc1, I several times saw a endless loop similar to that supposedly being fixed. This time it was a tighter loop in __mem_cgroup_iter_next(): because we can get here when our root has already been offlined, and the ordering of conditions was such that we then just cycled around forever. Fixes: 0eef615665ed ("memcg: fix css reference leak and endless loop in mem_cgroup_iter"). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index a3be835d999f..15429b92ff98 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1089,8 +1089,8 @@ skip_node: * skipping css reference should be safe. */ if (next_css) { - if ((next_css->flags & CSS_ONLINE) && - (next_css == &root->css || css_tryget(next_css))) + if ((next_css == &root->css) || + ((next_css->flags & CSS_ONLINE) && css_tryget(next_css))) return mem_cgroup_from_css(next_css); prev_css = next_css; -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html