memcg, slab: unregister cache from memcg before starting to destroy it
authorVladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:39:27 +0000 (15:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:36:12 +0000 (16:36 -0700)
commit051dd46050f2a9bdfff8cc067f8987069eae1743
tree64ccd763fcdda9a1087063f154f0d96fc6ab573a
parent794b1248be4e7e157f5535c3ee49168aa4643349
memcg, slab: unregister cache from memcg before starting to destroy it

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]>
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/slab_common.c