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authorMuchun Song <[email protected]>2020-07-23 21:15:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2020-07-24 12:42:41 -0700
commitd38a2b7a9c939e6d7329ab92b96559ccebf7b135 (patch)
tree160c2e50d11e032e35e531b4a3ba15a8d21b6583 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-sqlite.py
parent8d22a9351035ef2ff12ef163a1091b8b8cf1e49c (diff)
mm: memcg/slab: fix memory leak at non-root kmem_cache destroy
If the kmem_cache refcount is greater than one, we should not mark the root kmem_cache as dying. If we mark the root kmem_cache dying incorrectly, the non-root kmem_cache can never be destroyed. It resulted in memory leak when memcg was destroyed. We can use the following steps to reproduce. 1) Use kmem_cache_create() to create a new kmem_cache named A. 2) Coincidentally, the kmem_cache A is an alias for kmem_cache B, so the refcount of B is just increased. 3) Use kmem_cache_destroy() to destroy the kmem_cache A, just decrease the B's refcount but mark the B as dying. 4) Create a new memory cgroup and alloc memory from the kmem_cache B. It leads to create a non-root kmem_cache for allocating memory. 5) When destroy the memory cgroup created in the step 4), the non-root kmem_cache can never be destroyed. If we repeat steps 4) and 5), this will cause a lot of memory leak. So only when refcount reach zero, we mark the root kmem_cache as dying. Fixes: 92ee383f6daa ("mm: fix race between kmem_cache destroy, create and deactivate") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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