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authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>2013-02-22 16:34:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 17:50:18 -0800
commite4715f01be697a3730c78f8ffffb595591d6a88c (patch)
tree6ba363f7454d0b8e6b4db8997c8b7fa587f20279 /mm
parent692e89abd154b04d212dce0c18a449bda15aac04 (diff)
memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure.
When use_hierarchy is enabled, we acquire an extra reference count in our parent during cgroup creation. We don't release it, though, if any failure exist in the creation process. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f4f41c36e703..60d28e36f0e0 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6196,6 +6196,8 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *cont)
* call __mem_cgroup_free, so return directly
*/
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
+ if (parent->use_hierarchy)
+ mem_cgroup_put(parent);
}
return error;
}