mm: memcontrol: fix root_mem_cgroup charging
The below scenario can cause the page counters of the root_mem_cgroup to be out of balance. CPU0: CPU1: objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_current() obj_cgroup_charge_pages(objcg) memcg_reparent_objcgs() // reparent to root_mem_cgroup WRITE_ONCE(iter->memcg, parent) // memcg == root_mem_cgroup memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg) // do not charge to the root_mem_cgroup try_charge(memcg) obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(objcg) memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg) // uncharge from the root_mem_cgroup refill_stock(memcg) drain_stock(memcg) page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory) get_obj_cgroup_from_current() never returns a root_mem_cgroup's objcg, so we never explicitly charge the root_mem_cgroup. And it's not going to change. It's all about a race when we got an obj_cgroup pointing at some non-root memcg, but before we were able to charge it, the cgroup was gone, objcg was reparented to the root and so we're skipping the charging. Then we store the objcg pointer and later use to uncharge the root_mem_cgroup. This can cause the page counter to be less than the actual value. Although we do not display the value (mem_cgroup_usage) so there shouldn't be any actual problem, but there is a WARN_ON_ONCE in the page_counter_cancel(). Who knows if it will trigger? So it is better to fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210425075410.19255-1-songmuchun@bytedance.comSigned-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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