Re: [V2][PATCH] cgroup: fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline

[Quanyang Wang]

Hi Michal,

On 10/20/21 1:10 AM, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 06:41:14PM +0800, Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So I add 2 "Fixes tags" here to indicate that 2 commits introduce two
> > different issues.
>
> AFAIU, both the changes are needed to cause the leak, a single patch
> alone won't cause the issue. Is that correct? (Perhaps not as I realize,
> see below.)
Yes, I back to the earlier commit 4bfc0bb2c60e and no memory leak is 
observed.
> But on second thought, the problem is the missing percpu_ref_exit() in
> the (root) cgroup release path and percpu counter would allocate the
> percpu_count_ptr anyway, so 4bfc0bb2c60e is only making the leak more
> visible. Is this correct?
No, the earlier commit 4bfc0bb2c60e introduces a imbalance and the later
commit 2b0d3d3e4fcf introduces a visible leak.

Thanks,
Quanyang
> I agree the commit 2b0d3d3e4fcf ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of
> percpu_ref in fast path") alone did nothing wrong.
>
> [On a related (but independent) note, there seems to be an optimization
> opportunity in not dealing with cgroup_bpf at all on the non-default
> hierarchies.]
>
> Regards,
> Michal