[PATCH -mm 12/12] slub: make sure all memcg caches have unique names on sysfs

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Wed Feb 26 2014 - 10:05:54 EST


Since memcg caches are now reparented on memcg offline, a memcg cache
can outlive its cgroup. If the memcg id is then reused for a new cgroup
with the same name, we can get cache name collision, which will result
in failures while trying to add a sysfs entry for a new cgroup's cache.
Let's fix this by appending the cache address to sysfs names of all
memcg caches so that they are guaranteed to have unique names.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index d8b8659bfa64..cdeea794bba5 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5234,7 +5234,18 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
}

s->kobj.kset = cache_kset(s);
- err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype, NULL, "%s", name);
+ /*
+ * A memcg cache can outlive its cgroup. If the memcg id is then reused
+ * for a new cgroup with the same name, we can get cache name
+ * collision. To make sure all memcg caches have unique names on sysfs,
+ * we append the cache address to its name.
+ */
+ if (is_root_cache(s))
+ err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype,
+ NULL, "%s", name);
+ else
+ err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype,
+ NULL, "%s-%p", name, s);
if (err) {
kobject_put(&s->kobj);
return err;
--
1.7.10.4

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/