From 499611ed451508a42d1d7d1faff10177827755d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:16:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg root->ino_ida is used for kernfs inode number allocations. Since IDA has a layered structure, different IDs can reside on the same layer, which is currently accounted to some memory cgroup. The problem is that each kmem cache of a memory cgroup has its own directory on sysfs (under /sys/fs/kernel//cgroup). If the inode number of such a directory or any file in it gets allocated from a layer accounted to the cgroup which the cache is created for, the cgroup will get pinned for good, because one has to free all kmem allocations accounted to a cgroup in order to release it and destroy all its kmem caches. That said we must not account layers of ino_ida to any memory cgroup. Since per net init operations may create new sysfs entries directly (e.g. lo device) or indirectly (nf_conntrack creates a new kmem cache per each namespace, which, in turn, creates new sysfs entries), an easy way to reproduce this issue is by creating network namespace(s) from inside a kmem-active memory cgroup. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: [4.0.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/kernfs/dir.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index f131fc2..fffca95 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -518,7 +518,14 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root, if (!kn) goto err_out1; - ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0, GFP_KERNEL); + /* + * If the ino of the sysfs entry created for a kmem cache gets + * allocated from an ida layer, which is accounted to the memcg that + * owns the cache, the memcg will get pinned forever. So do not account + * ino ida allocations. + */ + ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOACCOUNT); if (ret < 0) goto err_out2; kn->ino = ret; -- 2.7.4