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 08:01:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260322080142.5834-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
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.
Add the missing percpu_ref_kill() in the error path, matching the normal
teardown sequence in memcg_reparent_objcgs().
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 | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index a47fb68dd65f..0da996d37c74 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4100,8 +4100,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
for_each_node(nid) {
objcg = obj_cgroup_alloc();
- if (!objcg)
+ if (!objcg) {
goto free_objcg;
+ }
if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)))
objcg->is_root = true;
@@ -4137,6 +4138,9 @@ 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_dereference_protected(pn->objcg, true);
+ if (objcg)
+ percpu_ref_kill(&objcg->refcnt);
if (pn && pn->orig_objcg) {
obj_cgroup_put(pn->orig_objcg);
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-22 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-22 8:01 David Carlier [this message]
2026-03-22 16:20 ` [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: fix obj_cgroup leak in mem_cgroup_css_online() error path 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 9:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2026-03-24 10:54 ` David CARLIER
2026-03-22 19:36 ` David Carlier
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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