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Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix get_active_memcg return value

From: Shakeel Butt <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-23 15:20:50
Also in: cgroups, linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:14 AM Muchun Song [off-list ref] wrote:
We use a global percpu int_active_memcg variable to store the remote
memcg when we are in the interrupt context. But get_active_memcg always
return the current->active_memcg or root_mem_cgroup. The remote memcg
(set in the interrupt context) is ignored. This is not what we want.
So fix it.

Fixes: 37d5985c003d ("mm: kmem: prepare remote memcg charging infra for interrupt contexts")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
Good catch.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <redacted>
quoted hunk
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index be6bc5044150..bbe25655f7eb 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1061,13 +1061,9 @@ static __always_inline struct mem_cgroup *get_active_memcg(void)

        rcu_read_lock();
        memcg = active_memcg();
-       if (memcg) {
-               /* current->active_memcg must hold a ref. */
-               if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!css_tryget(&memcg->css)))
-                       memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
-               else
-                       memcg = current->active_memcg;
-       }
+       /* remote memcg must hold a ref. */
+       if (memcg && WARN_ON_ONCE(!css_tryget(&memcg->css)))
+               memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
        rcu_read_unlock();

        return memcg;
--
2.11.0
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