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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>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: fix obj_cgroup leak in mem_cgroup_css_online() error path
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:28:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323062846.6262-1-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.

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")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index a47fb68dd65f..e361f42464ef 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 +4139,12 @@ 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



             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-23  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-23  6:28 David Carlier [this message]
2026-03-23  6:30 ` [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: fix obj_cgroup leak in mem_cgroup_css_online() error path David CARLIER
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-03-22  8:01 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  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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