Patch "mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-memcontrol-fix-swap-counter-leak-on-swapout-from-offline-cgroup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 1f47b61fb4077936465dcde872a4e5cc4fe708da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:33:00 -0700
Subject: mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup

From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>

commit 1f47b61fb4077936465dcde872a4e5cc4fe708da upstream.

An offline memory cgroup might have anonymous memory or shmem left
charged to it and no swap.  Since only swap entries pin the id of an
offline cgroup, such a cgroup will have no id and so an attempt to
swapout its anon/shmem will not store memory cgroup info in the swap
cgroup map.  As a result, memcg->swap or memcg->memsw will never get
uncharged from it and any of its ascendants.

Fix this by always charging swapout to the first ancestor cgroup that
hasn't released its id yet.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: add comment to mem_cgroup_swapout]
[vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: use WARN_ON_ONCE() in mem_cgroup_id_get_online()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803123445.GJ13263@esperanza
Fixes: 73f576c04b941 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5336daa5c9a32e776067773d9da655d2dc126491.1470219853.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4141,6 +4141,24 @@ static void mem_cgroup_id_get(struct mem
 	atomic_inc(&memcg->id.ref);
 }
 
+static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_id_get_online(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	while (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&memcg->id.ref)) {
+		/*
+		 * The root cgroup cannot be destroyed, so it's refcount must
+		 * always be >= 1.
+		 */
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(memcg == root_mem_cgroup)) {
+			VM_BUG_ON(1);
+			break;
+		}
+		memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
+		if (!memcg)
+			memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
+	}
+	return memcg;
+}
+
 static void mem_cgroup_id_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&memcg->id.ref)) {
@@ -5723,7 +5741,7 @@ subsys_initcall(mem_cgroup_init);
  */
 void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry)
 {
-	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg, *swap_memcg;
 	unsigned short oldid;
 
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
@@ -5738,16 +5756,27 @@ void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct page *pag
 	if (!memcg)
 		return;
 
-	mem_cgroup_id_get(memcg);
-	oldid = swap_cgroup_record(entry, mem_cgroup_id(memcg));
+	/*
+	 * In case the memcg owning these pages has been offlined and doesn't
+	 * have an ID allocated to it anymore, charge the closest online
+	 * ancestor for the swap instead and transfer the memory+swap charge.
+	 */
+	swap_memcg = mem_cgroup_id_get_online(memcg);
+	oldid = swap_cgroup_record(entry, mem_cgroup_id(swap_memcg));
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(oldid, page);
-	mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(memcg, true);
+	mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(swap_memcg, true);
 
 	page->mem_cgroup = NULL;
 
 	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
 		page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory, 1);
 
+	if (memcg != swap_memcg) {
+		if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(swap_memcg))
+			page_counter_charge(&swap_memcg->memsw, 1);
+		page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, 1);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Interrupts should be disabled here because the caller holds the
 	 * mapping->tree_lock lock which is taken with interrupts-off. It is


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vdavydov@virtuozzo.com are

queue-4.4/mm-memcontrol-fix-memcg-id-ref-counter-on-swap-charge-move.patch
queue-4.4/mm-memcontrol-fix-swap-counter-leak-on-swapout-from-offline-cgroup.patch
queue-4.4/mm-memcontrol-fix-cgroup-creation-failure-after-many-small-jobs.patch