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From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: <quanyang.wang@windriver.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:29:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YWRmYk4hHhPf602i@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211011162128.GC61605@blackbody.suse.cz>

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 06:21:28PM +0200, Michal Koutny wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 08:16:03PM +0800, quanyang.wang@windriver.com wrote:
> > This is because that root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data is allocated by the
> > function percpu_ref_init in cgroup_bpf_inherit which is called by
> > cgroup_setup_root when mounting, but not freed along with root_cgrp
> > when umounting.
> 
> Good catch!

+1

> 
> > Adding cgroup_bpf_offline which calls percpu_ref_kill to
> > cgroup_kill_sb can free root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data in umount path.
> 
> That is sensible.
> 
> > Fixes: 2b0d3d3e4fcfb ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path")
> 
> Why this Fixes:? Is the leak absent before the percpu_ref refactoring?

I agree, the "fixes" tag looks dubious to me.

> I guess the embedded data are free'd together with cgroup. Makes me
> wonder why struct cgroup_bpf has a separate percpu_ref counter from
> struct cgroup...

This is because a cgroup can stay a long time (sometimes effectively forever)
in a dying state, so we want to release bpf structures earlier.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-11 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-07 12:16 [PATCH] cgroup: fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline quanyang.wang
2021-10-11 16:21 ` Michal Koutný
2021-10-11 16:29   ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2021-10-22 15:50     ` John Fastabend
2021-10-12  6:22   ` Quanyang Wang
2021-10-12  9:32     ` Michal Koutný

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