From: Yafang Shao <[email protected]> commit 11d6761218d19ca06ae5387f4e3692c4fa9e7493 upstream.
When I run my memcg testcase which creates lots of memcgs, I found there're unexpected out of memory logs while there're still enough available free memory. The error log is mkdir: cannot create directory 'foo.65533': Cannot allocate memory The reason is when we try to create more than MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX memcgs, an -ENOMEM errno will be set by mem_cgroup_css_alloc(), but the right errno should be -ENOSPC "No space left on device", which is an appropriate errno for userspace's failed mkdir. As the errno really misled me, we should make it right. After this patch, the error log will be mkdir: cannot create directory 'foo.65533': No space left on device [[email protected]: s/EBUSY/ENOSPC/, per Michal] [[email protected]: s/EBUSY/ENOSPC/, per Michal] Fixes: 73f576c04b94 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs") Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4977,19 +4977,22 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all unsigned int size; int node; int __maybe_unused i; + long error = -ENOMEM; size = sizeof(struct mem_cgroup); size += nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_per_node *); memcg = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!memcg) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(error); memcg->id.id = idr_alloc(&mem_cgroup_idr, NULL, 1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX, GFP_KERNEL); - if (memcg->id.id < 0) + if (memcg->id.id < 0) { + error = memcg->id.id; goto fail; + } memcg->vmstats_local = alloc_percpu(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu); if (!memcg->vmstats_local) @@ -5033,7 +5036,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all fail: mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg); __mem_cgroup_free(memcg); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(error); } static struct cgroup_subsys_state * __ref @@ -5044,8 +5047,8 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy long error = -ENOMEM; memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc(); - if (!memcg) - return ERR_PTR(error); + if (IS_ERR(memcg)) + return ERR_CAST(memcg); memcg->high = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; @@ -5095,7 +5098,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy fail: mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg); mem_cgroup_free(memcg); - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return ERR_PTR(error); } static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
