Re: [PATCH] memcg: clean up soft_limit_tree properly new

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Dec 13 2011 - 20:00:34 EST


On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:09:35 +0100
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> And a follow up patch for the proper clean up:
> ---
> >From 4b9f5a1e88496af9f336d1ef37cfdf3754a3ba48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:04:18 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] memcg: clean up soft_limit_tree properly
>
> If we are not able to allocate tree nodes for all NUMA nodes then we
> should better clean up those that were allocated otherwise we will leak
> a memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 6aff93c..838d812 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4874,7 +4874,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_soft_limit_tree_init(void)
> tmp = -1;
> rtpn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*rtpn), GFP_KERNEL, tmp);
> if (!rtpn)
> - return 1;
> + goto err_cleanup;
>
> soft_limit_tree.rb_tree_per_node[node] = rtpn;
>
> @@ -4885,6 +4885,16 @@ static int mem_cgroup_soft_limit_tree_init(void)
> }
> }
> return 0;
> +
> +err_cleanup:
> + for_each_node_state(node, N_POSSIBLE) {
> + if (!soft_limit_tree.rb_tree_per_node[node])
> + break;
> + kfree(soft_limit_tree.rb_tree_per_node[node]);
> + soft_limit_tree.rb_tree_per_node[node] = NULL;
> + }
> + return 1;
> +
> }

afacit the kernel never frees the soft_limit_tree.rb_tree_per_node[]
entries on the mem_cgroup_destroy() path. Bug?
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