We are supposed to take one css reference per each memory page and per
each swap entry accounted to a memory cgroup. However, during task
charges migration we take a reference to the destination cgroup twice
per each swap entry: first in mem_cgroup_do_precharge()->try_charge()
and then in mem_cgroup_move_swap_account(), permanently leaking the
destination cgroup.
The hunk taking the second reference seems to be a leftover from the
pre-
00501b531c472 ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API") era. Remove it
to fix the leak.
Fixes:
e8ea14cc6ead (mm: memcontrol: take a css reference for each charged page)
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
if (swap_cgroup_cmpxchg(entry, old_id, new_id) == old_id) {
mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(from, false);
mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(to, true);
- /*
- * This function is only called from task migration context now.
- * It postpones page_counter and refcount handling till the end
- * of task migration(mem_cgroup_clear_mc()) for performance
- * improvement. But we cannot postpone css_get(to) because if
- * the process that has been moved to @to does swap-in, the
- * refcount of @to might be decreased to 0.
- *
- * We are in attach() phase, so the cgroup is guaranteed to be
- * alive, so we can just call css_get().
- */
- css_get(&to->css);
return 0;
}
return -EINVAL;