[PATCH 4.0 111/148] kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 499611ed451508a42d1d7d1faff10177827755d5 upstream.

root->ino_ida is used for kernfs inode number allocations. Since IDA has
a layered structure, different IDs can reside on the same layer, which
is currently accounted to some memory cgroup. The problem is that each
kmem cache of a memory cgroup has its own directory on sysfs (under
/sys/fs/kernel/<cache-name>/cgroup). If the inode number of such a
directory or any file in it gets allocated from a layer accounted to the
cgroup which the cache is created for, the cgroup will get pinned for
good, because one has to free all kmem allocations accounted to a cgroup
in order to release it and destroy all its kmem caches. That said we
must not account layers of ino_ida to any memory cgroup.

Since per net init operations may create new sysfs entries directly
(e.g. lo device) or indirectly (nf_conntrack creates a new kmem cache
per each namespace, which, in turn, creates new sysfs entries), an easy
way to reproduce this issue is by creating network namespace(s) from
inside a kmem-active memory cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/kernfs/dir.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -518,7 +518,14 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_
 	if (!kn)
 		goto err_out1;
 
-	ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+	/*
+	 * If the ino of the sysfs entry created for a kmem cache gets
+	 * allocated from an ida layer, which is accounted to the memcg that
+	 * owns the cache, the memcg will get pinned forever. So do not account
+	 * ino ida allocations.
+	 */
+	ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0,
+			     GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOACCOUNT);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto err_out2;
 	kn->ino = ret;


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