mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thu, 2 Oct 2014 23:16:57 +0000 (16:16 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:00:08 +0000 (09:00 -0800)
commitc65fabeffc5e5736465f89f1255c1953c9f60a9d
tree5f8934f1f9ee01563c7d6da1c51359dfd0df7415
parent3716dc8ceb39d47216059c0d494447d125d2b2f9
mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs

commit 2f7dd7a4100ad4affcb141605bef178ab98ccb18 upstream.

The cgroup iterators yield css objects that have not yet gone through
css_online(), but they are not complete memcgs at this point and so the
memcg iterators should not return them.  Commit d8ad30559715 ("mm/memcg:
iteration skip memcgs not yet fully initialized") set out to implement
exactly this, but it uses CSS_ONLINE, a cgroup-internal flag that does
not meet the ordering requirements for memcg, and so the iterator may
skip over initialized groups, or return partially initialized memcgs.

The cgroup core can not reasonably provide a clear answer on whether the
object around the css has been fully initialized, as that depends on
controller-specific locking and lifetime rules.  Thus, introduce a
memcg-specific flag that is set after the memcg has been initialized in
css_online(), and read before mem_cgroup_iter() callers access the memcg
members.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c