From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, shakeelb@google.com, guro@fb.com,
alexs@kernel.org, richard.weiyang@gmail.com,
songmuchun@bytedance.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, memcg: avoid possible NULL pointer dereferencing in mem_cgroup_init()
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:52:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQKyn8bKRblCDuND@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729125755.16871-5-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 08:57:54PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> rtpn might be NULL in very rare case. We have better to check it before
> dereferencing it. Since memcg can live with NULL rb_tree_per_node in
> soft_limit_tree, warn this case and continue.
Why would we need to warn? the GFP flags don't contain NOWARN, so
we already know an allocation failed.
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: hannes-druUgvl0LCNAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, memcg: avoid possible NULL pointer dereferencing in mem_cgroup_init()
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:52:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQKyn8bKRblCDuND@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729125755.16871-5-linmiaohe-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 08:57:54PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> rtpn might be NULL in very rare case. We have better to check it before
> dereferencing it. Since memcg can live with NULL rb_tree_per_node in
> soft_limit_tree, warn this case and continue.
Why would we need to warn? the GFP flags don't contain NOWARN, so
we already know an allocation failed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-29 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-29 12:57 [PATCH 0/5] Cleanups and fixup for memcontrol Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm, memcg: remove unused functions Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 14:07 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-29 14:07 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-30 2:39 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 2:39 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 2:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 2:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 6:45 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-30 6:45 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-29 12:57 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm, memcg: narrow the scope of percpu_charge_mutex Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 2:42 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 2:42 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 3:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 3:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 6:50 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-30 6:50 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-31 2:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-31 2:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-02 6:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 6:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 9:54 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-02 9:54 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-03 3:40 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-08-03 3:40 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-08-03 6:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-03 6:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-03 7:11 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-03 7:11 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-03 7:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-08-03 7:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-08-03 7:27 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-03 7:27 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-03 9:33 ` Muchun Song
2021-08-03 9:33 ` Muchun Song
2021-08-03 10:50 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-03 10:50 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-03 14:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-03 14:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-08-04 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-04 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-05 1:44 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-05 1:44 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 6:46 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-29 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm, memcg: save some atomic ops when flush is already true Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 14:40 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-29 14:40 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-30 2:37 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 2:37 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 3:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 3:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 6:51 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-30 6:51 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-29 12:57 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm, memcg: avoid possible NULL pointer dereferencing in mem_cgroup_init() Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 13:52 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-07-29 13:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-30 1:50 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 1:50 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 3:12 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 3:12 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-07-30 6:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 6:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 6:44 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-30 6:44 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-31 2:05 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-31 2:05 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-02 6:43 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 6:43 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 10:00 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-02 10:00 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-02 10:42 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 10:42 ` Michal Hocko
2021-08-02 11:18 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-02 11:18 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm, memcg: always call __mod_node_page_state() with preempt disabled Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 12:57 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-29 14:39 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-29 14:39 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-30 1:52 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 1:52 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 2:33 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-07-30 2:33 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-30 2:46 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-07-30 2:46 ` Miaohe Lin
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