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Commit fa460c2d authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure"

This reverts commit e4715f01

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mem_cgroup_put is hierarchy aware so mem_cgroup_put(memcg) already drops
an additional reference from all parents so the additional
mem_cgrroup_put(parent) potentially causes use-after-free.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.9+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 493af578
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