linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix forget to obtain the ref to objcg in split_page

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Message-ID: <5c183fe6-637f-151c-67f0-fe19a0ce3356@huawei.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 11:31:16 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, <guro@...com>,
        <hannes@...xchg.org>, <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix forget to obtain the ref to objcg in
 split_page_memcg

On 2021/4/1 11:01, Muchun Song wrote:
> Christian Borntraeger reported a warning about "percpu ref
> (obj_cgroup_release) <= 0 (-1) after switching to atomic".
> Because we forgot to obtain the reference to the objcg and
> wrongly obtain the reference of memcg.
> 
> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Thanks for the patch.
Is a Fixes tag needed?

> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 6 ++++++
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 0e8907957227..c960fd49c3e8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -804,6 +804,12 @@ static inline void obj_cgroup_get(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
>  	percpu_ref_get(&objcg->refcnt);
>  }
>  
> +static inline void obj_cgroup_get_many(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> +				       unsigned long nr)
> +{
> +	percpu_ref_get_many(&objcg->refcnt, nr);
> +}
> +
>  static inline void obj_cgroup_put(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
>  {
>  	percpu_ref_put(&objcg->refcnt);
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index c0b83a396299..64ada9e650a5 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3133,7 +3133,11 @@ void split_page_memcg(struct page *head, unsigned int nr)
>  
>  	for (i = 1; i < nr; i++)
>  		head[i].memcg_data = head->memcg_data;
> -	css_get_many(&memcg->css, nr - 1);
> +
> +	if (PageMemcgKmem(head))
> +		obj_cgroup_get_many(__page_objcg(head), nr - 1);
> +	else
> +		css_get_many(&memcg->css, nr - 1);
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP
>