[BUGFIX][RFT][PATCH] memcg: fix double free in error route

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 01:03:18 EST


Could you test this ?
This includes a fix and a cleanup.

After this, the kernel will panic if handling of refcnt is bad.
This is against mmotom-dec-15.

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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

1. Fix double-free BUG in error route of mem_cgroup_create().
mem_cgroup_free() itself frees per-zone-info.
2. Making refcnt of memcg simple.
Add 1 refcnt at creation and call free when refcnt goes down to 0.

Singed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Dec15/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.28-Dec15.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ mmotm-2.6.28-Dec15/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2087,14 +2087,10 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all
* Removal of cgroup itself succeeds regardless of refs from swap.
*/

-static void mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
+static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
{
int node;

- if (atomic_read(&mem->refcnt) > 0)
- return;
-
-
for_each_node_state(node, N_POSSIBLE)
free_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(mem, node);

@@ -2111,11 +2107,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_get(struct mem_cg

static void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
{
- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mem->refcnt)) {
- if (!mem->obsolete)
- return;
- mem_cgroup_free(mem);
- }
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mem->refcnt))
+ __mem_cgroup_free(mem);
}


@@ -2165,12 +2158,10 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *

if (parent)
mem->swappiness = get_swappiness(parent);
-
+ atomic_set(&mem->refcnt, 1);
return &mem->css;
free_out:
- for_each_node_state(node, N_POSSIBLE)
- free_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(mem, node);
- mem_cgroup_free(mem);
+ __mem_cgroup_free(mem);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}

@@ -2185,7 +2176,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_pre_destroy(struc
static void mem_cgroup_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
struct cgroup *cont)
{
- mem_cgroup_free(mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont));
+ mem_cgroup_put(mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont));
}

static int mem_cgroup_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,

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