From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>, Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] ipmr: account multicast table and route memory
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:56:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916155611.10207-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026091605-vineyard-astronaut-9480@gregkh>
From: Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
[ Upstream commit b7ee18725f2292ab554aa96a101ae42d45f008bd ]
A netadmin in a user+net namespace can create many IPv4 and IPv6
multicast routing tables with MRT_TABLE and MRT6_TABLE. Each unseen
id allocates an mr_table via the shared mr_table_alloc(), links it
into the per-net list, and leaves it until netns teardown. Those
objects were not charged to memcg, so the host unreclaimable slab
grows with the table count.
Account mr_table allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and mark the
IPv4/IPv6 MFC caches SLAB_ACCOUNT. This matches the established
handling of IP addresses, routes and alternate interface names.
Unresolved MFC entries are still allocated from softIRQ with
GFP_ATOMIC and are not charged. They expire after 10 seconds and are
bounded by the socket receive queue; see commit 0079ad8e8dc3
("ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit").
Fixes: f0ad0860d01e ("ipv4: ipmr: support multiple tables")
Fixes: d1db275dd3f6 ("ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/050b58f7fc6b45da0fb12768ebb62d18fa46133d.1788784801.git.zihanx@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ adapted upstream allocation helpers to existing kzalloc() and kmem_cache_create() calls. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 3 ++-
net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
index f64651c0dea6c..4ae99e9f6a065 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
@@ -3145,7 +3145,8 @@ int __init ip_mr_init(void)
mrt_cachep = kmem_cache_create("ip_mrt_cache",
sizeof(struct mfc_cache),
- 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC,
+ 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC |
+ SLAB_ACCOUNT,
NULL);
err = register_pernet_subsys(&ipmr_net_ops);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c
index de98ce66d38f3..ae5a685daeeac 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ mr_table_alloc(struct net *net, u32 id,
struct mr_table *mrt;
int err;
- mrt = kzalloc(sizeof(*mrt), GFP_KERNEL);
+ mrt = kzalloc(sizeof(*mrt), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!mrt)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
mrt->id = id;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
index 00774cfa011af..e56f684e16d57 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ int __init ip6_mr_init(void)
mrt_cachep = kmem_cache_create("ip6_mrt_cache",
sizeof(struct mfc6_cache),
- 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
+ 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_ACCOUNT,
NULL);
if (!mrt_cachep)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.53.0
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2026-09-16 8:11 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ipmr: account multicast table and route memory" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
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