Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: assign shrinker_map before kvfree

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 03:29:07PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Currently there is a small gap between fetching pointer, calling
> kvfree and assign its value to nil. In current callgraph it is
> not a problem (since memcg_free_shrinker_maps is running from
> memcg_alloc_shrinker_maps and mem_cgroup_css_free only) still
> this looks suspicious and we can easily eliminate the gap at all.

With this logic it will still look suspicious since you don't wait a grace
period before freeing the map.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov