From ebb76ce16daf6908dc030dec1c00827d37129fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:07:11 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: fix wrong VM_BUG_ON() in try_charge()'s mm->owner check At __mem_cgroup_try_charge(), VM_BUG_ON(!mm->owner) is checked. But as commented in mem_cgroup_from_task(), mm->owner can be NULL in some racy case. This check of VM_BUG_ON() is bad. A possible story to hit this is at swapoff()->try_to_unuse(). It passes mm_struct to mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() while mm->owner is NULL. If we can't get proper mem_cgroup from swap_cgroup information, mm->owner is used as charge target and we see NULL. Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Reported-by: Thomas Meyer Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memcontrol.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 7a22b4129211..00bb8a64d028 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1925,19 +1925,18 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mm_struct *mm, rcu_read_lock(); p = rcu_dereference(mm->owner); - VM_BUG_ON(!p); /* - * because we don't have task_lock(), "p" can exit while - * we're here. In that case, "mem" can point to root - * cgroup but never be NULL. (and task_struct itself is freed - * by RCU, cgroup itself is RCU safe.) Then, we have small - * risk here to get wrong cgroup. But such kind of mis-account - * by race always happens because we don't have cgroup_mutex(). - * It's overkill and we allow that small race, here. + * Because we don't have task_lock(), "p" can exit. + * In that case, "mem" can point to root or p can be NULL with + * race with swapoff. Then, we have small risk of mis-accouning. + * But such kind of mis-account by race always happens because + * we don't have cgroup_mutex(). It's overkill and we allo that + * small race, here. + * (*) swapoff at el will charge against mm-struct not against + * task-struct. So, mm->owner can be NULL. */ mem = mem_cgroup_from_task(p); - VM_BUG_ON(!mem); - if (mem_cgroup_is_root(mem)) { + if (!mem || mem_cgroup_is_root(mem)) { rcu_read_unlock(); goto done; }