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memcg, slab: unregister cache from memcg before starting to destroy it
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Currently, memcg_unregister_cache(), which deletes the cache being
destroyed from the memcg_slab_caches list, is called after
__kmem_cache_shutdown() (see kmem_cache_destroy()), which starts to
destroy the cache.

As a result, one can access a partially destroyed cache while traversing
a memcg_slab_caches list, which can have deadly consequences (for
instance, cache_show() called for each cache on a memcg_slab_caches list
from mem_cgroup_slabinfo_read() will dereference pointers to already
freed data).

To fix this, let's move memcg_unregister_cache() before the cache
destruction process beginning, issuing memcg_register_cache() on failure.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Vladimir Davydov authored and torvalds committed Apr 7, 2014
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions mm/memcontrol.c
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Expand Up @@ -3140,6 +3140,7 @@ int memcg_alloc_cache_params(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct kmem_cache *s,
s->memcg_params->root_cache = root_cache;
INIT_WORK(&s->memcg_params->destroy,
kmem_cache_destroy_work_func);
css_get(&memcg->css);
} else
s->memcg_params->is_root_cache = true;

Expand All @@ -3148,6 +3149,10 @@ int memcg_alloc_cache_params(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct kmem_cache *s,

void memcg_free_cache_params(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
if (!s->memcg_params)
return;
if (!s->memcg_params->is_root_cache)
css_put(&s->memcg_params->memcg->css);
kfree(s->memcg_params);
}

Expand All @@ -3170,9 +3175,6 @@ void memcg_register_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
memcg = s->memcg_params->memcg;
id = memcg_cache_id(memcg);

css_get(&memcg->css);


/*
* Since readers won't lock (see cache_from_memcg_idx()), we need a
* barrier here to ensure nobody will see the kmem_cache partially
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* after removing it from the memcg_slab_caches list, otherwise we can
* fail to convert memcg_params_to_cache() while traversing the list.
*/
VM_BUG_ON(!root->memcg_params->memcg_caches[id]);
VM_BUG_ON(root->memcg_params->memcg_caches[id] != s);
root->memcg_params->memcg_caches[id] = NULL;

css_put(&memcg->css);
}

/*
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion mm/slab_common.c
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Expand Up @@ -313,9 +313,9 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
s->refcount--;
if (!s->refcount) {
list_del(&s->list);
memcg_unregister_cache(s);

if (!__kmem_cache_shutdown(s)) {
memcg_unregister_cache(s);
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
if (s->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)
rcu_barrier();
Expand All @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
} else {
list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
memcg_register_cache(s);
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
printk(KERN_ERR "kmem_cache_destroy %s: Slab cache still has objects\n",
s->name);
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