mm: memcg: fix race condition between memcg teardown and swapin
There is a race condition between a memcg being torn down and a swapin triggered from a different memcg of a page that was recorded to belong to the exiting memcg on swapout (with CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP extension). The result is unreclaimable pages pointing to dead memcgs, which can lead to anything from endless loops in later memcg teardown (the page is charged to all hierarchical parents but is not on any LRU list) or crashes from following the dangling memcg pointer. Memcgs with tasks in them can not be torn down and usually charges don't show up in memcgs without tasks. Swapin with the CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP extension is the notable exception because it charges the cgroup that was recorded as owner during swapout, which may be empty and in the process of being torn down when a task in another memcg triggers the swapin: teardown: swapin: lookup_swap_cgroup_id() rcu_read_lock() mem_cgroup_lookup() css_tryget() rcu_read_unlock() disable css_tryget() call_rcu() offline_css() reparent_charges() res_counter_charge() (hierarchical!) css_put() css_free() pc->mem_cgroup = dead memcg add page to dead lru Add a final reparenting step into css_free() to make sure any such raced charges are moved out of the memcg before it's finally freed. In the longer term it would be cleaner to have the css_tryget() and the res_counter charge under the same RCU lock section so that the charge reparenting is deferred until the last charge whose tryget succeeded is visible. But this will require more invasive changes that will be harder to evaluate and backport into stable, so better defer them to a separate change set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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