[PATCH 1/2] fork: check charging success before zeroing stack

[Linus Walleij]

From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>

No need to do zero cached stack if memcg charge fails, so move the
charging attempt before the memset operation.

Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240311164638.2015063-6-pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index af673856499dcaa35e135a9e8042ef28d5c5370d..2a5b7a5fa09b1f3a42473cf44a1316ec8b3b31d0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -290,6 +290,11 @@ static int alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
 		if (!vm_area)
 			continue;
 
+		if (memcg_charge_kernel_stack(vm_area)) {
+			vfree(vm_area->addr);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+
 		/* Reset stack metadata. */
 		kasan_unpoison_range(vm_area->addr, THREAD_SIZE);
 
@@ -298,11 +303,6 @@ static int alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
 		/* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */
 		memset(stack, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
 
-		if (memcg_charge_kernel_stack(vm_area)) {
-			vfree(vm_area->addr);
-			return -ENOMEM;
-		}
-
 		tsk->stack_vm_area = vm_area;
 		tsk->stack = stack;
 		return 0;

-- 
2.50.1