Re: [PATCH] cgroup: free cset links on find_css_set() failure

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

[This is an AI-assisted review.]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 05:35:43PM +0530, Kaushlendra Kumar wrote:
> When the recursive find_css_set() call for the domain
> cset fails, tmp_links allocated earlier are not freed,
> causing a memory leak.
>
> Free tmp_links before returning NULL to prevent the leak.

tmp_links entries are consumed by link_css_set() which list_move_tail()'s each
entry off tmp_links and into cgrp->cset_links and cset->cgrp_links. The
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&tmp_links)) right after the linking loop (line 1281)
confirms that tmp_links is empty by the time we reach the threaded cset
handling code below.

The links, now owned by cset->cgrp_links, are properly freed by
put_css_set(cset) which is already called on this error path.

So the added free_cgrp_cset_links() call would just iterate an empty list and
is a no-op. There is no leak here.

Thanks.

--
tejun