memcg: fix refcnt going negative

__mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node() returns a mem_cgroup_per_zone "mz"
with incremnted mz->mem->css's refcnt.  Then, the caller of this function
has to call css_put(mz->mem->css).

But, mz can be !NULL even if "not found" i.e.  without css_get().  By
this, css->refcnt will go down to minus.

This may cause various things...one of results will be
initite-loop in css_tryget()  as this.

INFO: RCU detected CPU 0 stall (t=10000 jiffies)
sending NMI to all CPUs:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU 0:
<snip>

 <<EOE>>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810884bd>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
  [<ffffffff8102a940>] flat_send_IPI_mask+0x90/0xb0
  [<ffffffff8102a9c9>] flat_send_IPI_all+0x69/0x70
  [<ffffffff81027372>] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace+0x62/0xa0
  [<ffffffff810bff8e>] __rcu_pending+0x7e/0x370
  [<ffffffff810c02c7>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x47/0x130
  [<ffffffff81063a26>] update_process_times+0x46/0x70
  [<ffffffff81085930>] tick_sched_timer+0x60/0x160
  [<ffffffff810858d0>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0x160
  [<ffffffff8107a03a>] __run_hrtimer+0xba/0x150
  [<ffffffff8107a325>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xd5/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81426dfe>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
  [<ffffffff8142cacd>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x9b
  [<ffffffff8100cb33>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
  <EOI>  [<ffffffff811317b6>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x156/0x180
  [<ffffffff811316d3>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x73/0x180
  [<ffffffff81131692>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x32/0x180
  [<ffffffff81131a00>] ? mem_cgroup_get_local_stat+0x0/0x110
  [<ffffffff81131d5b>] ? mem_control_stat_show+0x14b/0x330
  [<ffffffff810a57fd>] ? cgroup_seqfile_show+0x3d/0x60

Above shows CPU0 caught in css_tryget()'s inifinite loop because
of bad refcnt.

This is a fix to set mz=NULL at the top of retry path.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e2b98a6875c079b36f103b724130462591094735..21a30629ca801d5a400837b1289a03dd03a77450 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -447,9 +447,10 @@ static struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *
 __mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_zone *mctz)
 {
        struct rb_node *rightmost = NULL;
-       struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz = NULL;
+       struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz;
 
 retry:
+       mz = NULL;
        rightmost = rb_last(&mctz->rb_root);
        if (!rightmost)
                goto done;              /* Nothing to reclaim from */