memcg: fix destination cgroup leak on task charges migration
authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 22:32:37 +0000 (14:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 23:10:52 +0000 (15:10 -0800)
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>
mm/memcontrol.c

index b7104a55ae645845390f2f24da89c439c01217a4..851924fa5170e177e94080da70c64a1a64bcf896 100644 (file)
@@ -3043,18 +3043,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_swap_account(swp_entry_t entry,
        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;