[PATCH] mm, slab: memcg_link the SLAB's kmem_cache

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Mon Mar 19 2018 - 17:01:26 EST


All the root caches are linked into slab_root_caches which was
introduced by the commit 510ded33e075 ("slab: implement slab_root_caches
list") but it missed to add the SLAB's kmem_cache.

While experimenting with opt-in/opt-out kmem accounting, I noticed
system crashes due to NULL dereference inside cache_from_memcg_idx()
while deferencing kmem_cache.memcg_params.memcg_caches. The upstream
clean kernel will not see these crashes but SLAB should be consistent
with SLUB which does linked its boot caches (kmem_cache_node and
kmem_cache) into slab_root_caches.

Fixes: 510ded33e075c ("slab: implement slab_root_caches list")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 324446621b3e..9095c3945425 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1283,6 +1283,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node *),
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, 0, 0);
list_add(&kmem_cache->list, &slab_caches);
+ memcg_link_cache(kmem_cache);
slab_state = PARTIAL;

/*
--
2.16.2.804.g6dcf76e118-goog