[PATCH] mm: memcontrol-v1: use nofail allocations for soft limit trees

From: Ruoyu Wang

Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 02:37:28 EST


memcg1_init() allocates one soft-limit tree node per NUMA node and
then initializes the returned object. If kzalloc_node() fails, the rb_root
and lock initialization dereference NULL.

The per-node soft-limit tree is required by memcg v1. Use nofail
GFP_KERNEL allocations for these init-time objects so the init path does
not continue without the required tree nodes.

Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Wang <ruoyuw560@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index 433bba9dfe715..3f41a15d8a8cf 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -2246,7 +2246,8 @@ static int __init memcg1_init(void)
for_each_node(node) {
struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_node *rtpn;

- rtpn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*rtpn), GFP_KERNEL, node);
+ rtpn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*rtpn), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL,
+ node);

rtpn->rb_root = RB_ROOT;
rtpn->rb_rightmost = NULL;
--
2.51.0