mm: memcontrol: fix root_mem_cgroup charging
authorMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:37:44 +0000 (19:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:53:50 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commitc5c8b16b596e15471db22ed8ed10aafbf1a11878
treec7d07617fca55c2dbf40917d4f69deb31d8b02fa
parent13e680fb6a1e7749ef4f4824ed883684ceb838df
mm: memcontrol: fix root_mem_cgroup charging

The below scenario can cause the page counters of the root_mem_cgroup to
be out of balance.

CPU0:                                   CPU1:

objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_current()
obj_cgroup_charge_pages(objcg)
                                        memcg_reparent_objcgs()
                                            // reparent to root_mem_cgroup
                                            WRITE_ONCE(iter->memcg, parent)
    // memcg == root_mem_cgroup
    memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg)
    // do not charge to the root_mem_cgroup
    try_charge(memcg)

obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(objcg)
    memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg)
    // uncharge from the root_mem_cgroup
    refill_stock(memcg)
        drain_stock(memcg)
            page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory)

get_obj_cgroup_from_current() never returns a root_mem_cgroup's objcg, so
we never explicitly charge the root_mem_cgroup.  And it's not going to
change.  It's all about a race when we got an obj_cgroup pointing at some
non-root memcg, but before we were able to charge it, the cgroup was gone,
objcg was reparented to the root and so we're skipping the charging.  Then
we store the objcg pointer and later use to uncharge the root_mem_cgroup.

This can cause the page counter to be less than the actual value.
Although we do not display the value (mem_cgroup_usage) so there shouldn't
be any actual problem, but there is a WARN_ON_ONCE in the
page_counter_cancel().  Who knows if it will trigger?  So it is better to
fix it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210425075410.19255-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c