linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 006/149] memcg: fix endless loop in __mem_cgroup_iter

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:02:49 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 006/149] memcg: fix endless loop in __mem_cgroup_iter_next()

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

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

commit ce48225fe3b1b0d1fc9fceb96ac3d8a879e45114 upstream.

Commit 0eef615665ed ("memcg: fix css reference leak and endless loop in
mem_cgroup_iter") got the interaction with the commit a few before it
d8ad30559715 ("mm/memcg: iteration skip memcgs not yet fully
initialized") slightly wrong, and we didn't notice at the time.

It's elusive, and harder to get than the original, but for a couple of
days before rc1, I several times saw a endless loop similar to that
supposedly being fixed.

This time it was a tighter loop in __mem_cgroup_iter_next(): because we
can get here when our root has already been offlined, and the ordering
of conditions was such that we then just cycled around forever.

Fixes: 0eef615665ed ("memcg: fix css reference leak and endless loop in mem_cgroup_iter").
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1108,8 +1108,8 @@ skip_node:
 	 * skipping css reference should be safe.
 	 */
 	if (next_css) {
-		if ((next_css->flags & CSS_ONLINE) &&
-				(next_css == &root->css || css_tryget(next_css)))
+		if ((next_css == &root->css) ||
+		    ((next_css->flags & CSS_ONLINE) && css_tryget(next_css)))
 			return mem_cgroup_from_css(next_css);

 		prev_css = next_css;

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