mm: memcg: Correct unregistring of events attached to the same eventfd
authorAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:14:46 +0000 (05:14 +0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:55:51 +0000 (08:55 -0800)
commit371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f
treecc718011d32ae17ec61d1a68b71f912caf26b5bb
parent37fbf4bfb826372c3ca6c09d8a015d1fe9f5e186
mm: memcg: Correct unregistring of events attached to the same eventfd

There is an issue when memcg unregisters events that were attached to
the same eventfd:

- On the first call mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() removes all
  events attached to a given eventfd, and if there were no events left,
  thresholds->primary would become NULL;

- Since there were several events registered, cgroups core will call
  mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() again, but now kernel will oops,
  as the function doesn't expect that threshold->primary may be NULL.

That's a good question whether mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event()
should actually remove all events in one go, but nowadays it can't
do any better as cftype->unregister_event callback doesn't pass
any private event-associated cookie. So, let's fix the issue by
simply checking for threshold->primary.

FWIW, w/o the patch the following oops may be observed:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
 IP: [<ffffffff810be32c>] mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event+0x9c/0x1f0
 Pid: 574, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc4+ #9 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810be32c>]  [<ffffffff810be32c>] mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event+0x9c/0x1f0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88001d0b9d60  EFLAGS: 00010246
 Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 574, threadinfo ffff88001d0b8000, task ffff88001de91cc0)
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8107092b>] cgroup_event_remove+0x2b/0x60
  [<ffffffff8103db94>] process_one_work+0x174/0x450
  [<ffffffff8103e413>] worker_thread+0x123/0x2d0

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c