From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: fix obj_cgroup leak in mem_cgroup_css_online() error path
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:36:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260322193631.45457-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260322080142.5834-1-devnexen@gmail.com>
When obj_cgroup_alloc() fails partway through the NUMA node loop in
mem_cgroup_css_online(), the free_objcg error path drops the extra
reference held by pn->orig_objcg but never kills the initial percpu_ref
from obj_cgroup_alloc() stored in pn->objcg.
Since css_offline is never called when css_online fails,
memcg_reparent_objcgs() never runs, so the percpu_ref_kill() that
normally drops this initial reference never executes. The obj_cgroup and
its per-cpu ref allocations are leaked.
Clear pn->objcg via rcu_replace_pointer() and add the missing
percpu_ref_kill() in the error path, matching the normal teardown
sequence in memcg_reparent_objcgs().
Also add a NULL check for pn in __mem_cgroup_free() to prevent a NULL
pointer dereference when alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() fails partway
through the node loop in mem_cgroup_alloc().
Fixes: 098fad3e1621 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index a47fb68dd65f..00b3bb81aee4 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3936,6 +3936,8 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
for_each_node(node) {
struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn = memcg->nodeinfo[node];
+ if (!pn)
+ continue;
obj_cgroup_put(pn->orig_objcg);
free_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(pn);
@@ -4137,8 +4139,11 @@ static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
free_objcg:
for_each_node(nid) {
struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn = memcg->nodeinfo[nid];
+ objcg = rcu_replace_pointer(pn->objcg, NULL, true);
+ if (objcg)
+ percpu_ref_kill(&objcg->refcnt);
- if (pn && pn->orig_objcg) {
+ if (pn->orig_objcg) {
obj_cgroup_put(pn->orig_objcg);
/*
* Reset pn->orig_objcg to NULL to prevent
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-22 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-22 8:01 [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: fix obj_cgroup leak in mem_cgroup_css_online() error path David Carlier
2026-03-22 16:20 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-22 16:41 ` David CARLIER
2026-03-22 16:49 ` David Carlier
2026-03-22 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-22 19:26 ` David CARLIER
2026-03-24 8:22 ` kernel test robot
2026-03-24 9:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2026-03-24 10:54 ` David CARLIER
2026-03-22 19:36 ` David Carlier [this message]
2026-03-22 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-23 2:12 ` Qi Zheng
2026-03-23 6:30 ` David Carlier
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2026-03-23 6:28 David Carlier
2026-03-23 6:30 ` David CARLIER
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