Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure"
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:00:27 +0000 (16:00 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:42:27 +0000 (11:42 -0700)
commit9cafb55474a872531d0b9bf429346912ae5f1153
treea6b54d1883ebe50d12942bfb00de17e80f5a0064
parentc02527487f0c8feb578c0394ad481a97f26d3bd2
Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure"

commit fa460c2d37870e0a6f94c70e8b76d05ca11b6db0 upstream.

This reverts commit e4715f01be697a.

mem_cgroup_put is hierarchy aware so mem_cgroup_put(memcg) already drops
an additional reference from all parents so the additional
mem_cgrroup_put(parent) potentially causes use-after-free.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c