mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup
An offline memory cgroup might have anonymous memory or shmem left charged to it and no swap. Since only swap entries pin the id of an offline cgroup, such a cgroup will have no id and so an attempt to swapout its anon/shmem will not store memory cgroup info in the swap cgroup map. As a result, memcg->swap or memcg->memsw will never get uncharged from it and any of its ascendants. Fix this by always charging swapout to the first ancestor cgroup that hasn't released its id yet. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: add comment to mem_cgroup_swapout] [vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: use WARN_ON_ONCE() in mem_cgroup_id_get_online()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803123445.GJ13263@esperanza Fixes: 73f576c0 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5336daa5c9a32e776067773d9da655d2dc126491.1470219853.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.comSigned-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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