memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure.
authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:34:57 +0000 (16:34 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:50:18 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
When use_hierarchy is enabled, we acquire an extra reference count in
our parent during cgroup creation.  We don't release it, though, if any
failure exist in the creation process.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c

index f4f41c3..60d28e3 100644 (file)
@@ -6196,6 +6196,8 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *cont)
                 * call __mem_cgroup_free, so return directly
                 */
                mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
+               if (parent->use_hierarchy)
+                       mem_cgroup_put(parent);
        }
        return error;
 }