memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails
commit a41c58a6665cc995e237303b05db42100b71b65e upstream.
If the request is to create non-root group and we fail to meet it, we
should leave the root unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
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@suse.de>
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 59ac5d6..d99217b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4963,9 +4963,9 @@
int cpu;
enable_swap_cgroup();
parent = NULL;
- root_mem_cgroup = mem;
if (mem_cgroup_soft_limit_tree_init())
goto free_out;
+ root_mem_cgroup = mem;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock =
&per_cpu(memcg_stock, cpu);
@@ -5004,7 +5004,6 @@
return &mem->css;
free_out:
__mem_cgroup_free(mem);
- root_mem_cgroup = NULL;
return ERR_PTR(error);
}