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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/kernfs/dir.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index f131fc23ffc4..fffca9517321 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -518,7 +518,14 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root, if (!kn) goto err_out1; - ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0, GFP_KERNEL); + /* + * If the ino of the sysfs entry created for a kmem cache gets + * allocated from an ida layer, which is accounted to the memcg that + * owns the cache, the memcg will get pinned forever. So do not account + * ino ida allocations. + */ + ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOACCOUNT); if (ret < 0) goto err_out2; kn->ino = ret; |