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Commit 40d58138 authored by Daisuke Nishimura's avatar Daisuke Nishimura Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: fix error path of mem_cgroup_move_parent



There is a bug in error path of mem_cgroup_move_parent.

Extra refcnt got from try_charge should be dropped, and usages incremented
by try_charge should be decremented in both error paths:

    A: failure at get_page_unless_zero
    B: failure at isolate_lru_page

This bug makes this parent directory unremovable.

In case of A, rmdir doesn't return, because res.usage doesn't go down to 0
at mem_cgroup_force_empty even after all the pc in lru are removed.

In case of B, rmdir fails and returns -EBUSY, because it has extra ref
counts even after res.usage goes down to 0.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent bd112db8
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