Re: [PATCH stable-4.4 1/3] mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs

[Johannes Weiner]

Hi Michal, thanks for doing this. There is only one issue I can see:

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:56:17AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> @@ -4171,17 +4211,27 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
>  	if (!memcg)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> +	memcg->id.id = idr_alloc(&mem_cgroup_idr, NULL,
> +				 1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX,
> +				 GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (memcg->id.id < 0)
> +		goto out_free;
> +
>  	memcg->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
>  	if (!memcg->stat)
> -		goto out_free;
> +		goto out_idr;
>  
>  	if (memcg_wb_domain_init(memcg, GFP_KERNEL))
>  		goto out_free_stat;
>  
> +	idr_replace(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg, memcg->id.id);

This publishes the memcg object too early. Before 4.5, the memcg is
not fully initialized in mem_cgroup_alloc(). You have to move the
idr_replace() down to that function (and idr_remove() on free_out).

>  	return memcg;
>  
>  out_free_stat:
>  	free_percpu(memcg->stat);
> +out_idr:
> +	if (memcg->id.id > 0)
> +		idr_remove(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg->id.id);

The > 0 check seems unnecessary, no?