netdev - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf

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Date:   Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:29:22 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
CC:     <quanyang.wang@...driver.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix memory leak caused by missing
 cgroup_bpf_offline

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 06:21:28PM +0200, Michal Koutny wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 08:16:03PM +0800, quanyang.wang@...driver.com wrote:
> > This is because that root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data is allocated by the
> > function percpu_ref_init in cgroup_bpf_inherit which is called by
> > cgroup_setup_root when mounting, but not freed along with root_cgrp
> > when umounting.
> 
> Good catch!

+1

> 
> > Adding cgroup_bpf_offline which calls percpu_ref_kill to
> > cgroup_kill_sb can free root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data in umount path.
> 
> That is sensible.
> 
> > Fixes: 2b0d3d3e4fcfb ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path")
> 
> Why this Fixes:? Is the leak absent before the percpu_ref refactoring?

I agree, the "fixes" tag looks dubious to me.

> I guess the embedded data are free'd together with cgroup. Makes me
> wonder why struct cgroup_bpf has a separate percpu_ref counter from
> struct cgroup...

This is because a cgroup can stay a long time (sometimes effectively forever)
in a dying state, so we want to release bpf structures earlier.

Thanks!