[PATCH] mm: do not call mem_cgroup_free() from within mem_cgroup_alloc()

From: Tahsin Erdogan
Date: Fri Mar 03 2017 - 22:01:31 EST


mem_cgroup_free() indirectly calls wb_domain_exit() which is not
prepared to deal with a struct wb_domain object that hasn't executed
wb_domain_init(). For instance, the following warning message is
printed by lockdep if alloc_percpu() fails in mem_cgroup_alloc():

INFO: trying to register non-static key.
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 1 PID: 1950 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 4.10.0+ #151
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x67/0x99
register_lock_class+0x36d/0x540
__lock_acquire+0x7f/0x1a30
? irq_work_queue+0x73/0x90
? wake_up_klogd+0x36/0x40
? console_unlock+0x45d/0x540
? vprintk_emit+0x211/0x2e0
lock_acquire+0xcc/0x200
? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x60/0x60
del_timer_sync+0x3c/0xc0
? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x60/0x60
wb_domain_exit+0x14/0x20
mem_cgroup_free+0x14/0x40
mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x3f9/0x620
cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x190/0x390
cgroup_mkdir+0x290/0x3d0
kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x58/0x80
vfs_mkdir+0x10e/0x1a0
SyS_mkdirat+0xa8/0xd0
SyS_mkdir+0x14/0x20
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

Fix mem_cgroup_alloc() by doing more granular clean up in case of
failures.

Fixes: 0b8f73e104285 ("mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c52ec893e241..9a9d5630df91 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4194,9 +4194,12 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
idr_replace(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg, memcg->id.id);
return memcg;
fail:
+ for_each_node(node)
+ free_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(memcg, node);
+ free_percpu(memcg->stat);
if (memcg->id.id > 0)
idr_remove(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg->id.id);
- mem_cgroup_free(memcg);
+ kfree(memcg);
return NULL;
}

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