From: Guopeng Zhang Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 01:31:50 +0000 (+0800) Subject: cgroup/dmem: Return -ENOMEM on failed pool preallocation X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=796ad622040f7f955ccc3973085e953415920496;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git cgroup/dmem: Return -ENOMEM on failed pool preallocation get_cg_pool_unlocked() handles allocation failures under dmemcg_lock by dropping the lock, preallocating a pool with GFP_KERNEL, and retrying the locked lookup and creation path. If the fallback allocation fails too, pool remains NULL. Since the loop condition is while (!pool), the function can keep retrying instead of propagating the allocation failure to the caller. Set pool to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) when the fallback allocation fails so the loop exits through the existing common return path. The callers already handle ERR_PTR() from get_cg_pool_unlocked(), so this restores the expected error path. Fixes: b168ed458dde ("kernel/cgroup: Add "dmem" memory accounting cgroup") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14+ Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c b/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c index 1ab1fb47f271..4753a67d0f0f 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c @@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ get_cg_pool_unlocked(struct dmemcg_state *cg, struct dmem_cgroup_region *region) pool = NULL; continue; } + pool = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } }