On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 04:39:30PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

On 01/17, Christian Brauner wrote:

quoted

+static int cgroup_css_set_fork(struct task_struct *parent,
+			       struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)

...

quoted

+	kargs->cset = find_css_set(cset, dst_cgrp);
+	if (!kargs->cset) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err;
+	}
+
+	if (cgroup_is_dead(dst_cgrp)) {
+		ret = -ENODEV;
+		goto err;

                ^^^^^^^^

this looks wrong... don't we need put_css_set(kargs->cset) before "goto err" ?

Yeah, but we should rather do:

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 4d36255ef25f..482055d1e64a 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c

@@ -5994,6 +5994,8 @@ static int cgroup_css_set_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
        if (dst_cgrp)
                cgroup_put(dst_cgrp);
        put_css_set(cset);
+       if (kargs->cset)
+               put_css_set(kargs->cset);
        return ret;
 }

Christian