Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched/psi: Zero the memory of struct psi_group

[Johannes Weiner]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 08:05:08PM +0800, Hao Jia wrote:
> After commit 5f69a6577bc3 ("psi: dont alloc memory for psi by default"),
> the memory used by struct psi_group is no longer allocated and zeroed
> in cgroup_create().
>
> Since the memory of struct psi_group is not zeroed, the data in this
> memory is random, which will lead to inaccurate psi statistics when
> creating a new cgroup.
> 
> So we use kzlloc() to allocate and zero the struct psi_group and
> remove the redundant zeroing in group_init().
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Use cgroup v2 and enable CONFIG_PSI
> 2. Create a new cgroup, and query psi statistics
> mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
> cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cpu.pressure
> some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=47927752200.00 total=12884901
> full avg10=561815124.00 avg60=125835394188.00 avg300=1077090462000.00 total=10273561772
> 
> cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/io.pressure
> some avg10=1040093132823.95 avg60=1203770351379.21 avg300=3862252669559.46 total=4294967296
> full avg10=921884564601.39 avg60=0.00 avg300=1984507298.35 total=442381631
> 
> cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.pressure
> some avg10=232476085778.11 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
> full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=2585658472280.57 total=12884901
> 
> Fixes: commit 5f69a6577bc3 ("psi: dont alloc memory for psi by default")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yikes! Yes, we relied on the embedding cgroup being kzalloc'd, or, in
the case of psi_system, on the psi_group being in NULLed static mem.
The partial zeroing in group_init() obscured that. Thanks for the fix.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.19
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>