memcg: only free spare array when readers are done

commit 6611d8d76132f86faa501de9451a89bf23fb2371 upstream.

A spare array holding mem cgroup threshold events is kept around to make
sure we can always safely deregister an event and have an array to store
the new set of events in.

In the scenario where we're going from 1 to 0 registered events, the
pointer to the primary array containing 1 event is copied to the spare
slot, and then the spare slot is freed because no events are left.
However, it is freed before calling synchronize_rcu(), which means
readers may still be accessing threshold->primary after it is freed.

Fixed by only freeing after synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 2f3c21c10dd4988790b7a21e5b121c7f0da4621f..2bfd852934ac14661cb94101369c2603525e51cd 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5602,16 +5602,17 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 swap_buffers:
        /* Swap primary and spare array */
        thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
-       /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
-       if (!new) {
-               kfree(thresholds->spare);
-               thresholds->spare = NULL;
-       }
 
        rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new);
 
        /* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */
        synchronize_rcu();
+
+       /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
+       if (!new) {
+               kfree(thresholds->spare);
+               thresholds->spare = NULL;
+       }
 unlock:
        mutex_unlock(&memcg->thresholds_lock);
 }