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-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e71e8440de6b..ba9f5404b8cf 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2888,6 +2888,17 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_obj(void *p)
page = virt_to_head_page(p);
/*
+ * If page->mem_cgroup is set, it's either a simple mem_cgroup pointer
+ * or a pointer to obj_cgroup vector. In the latter case the lowest
+ * bit of the pointer is set.
+ * The page->mem_cgroup pointer can be asynchronously changed
+ * from NULL to (obj_cgroup_vec | 0x1UL), but can't be changed
+ * from a valid memcg pointer to objcg vector or back.
+ */
+ if (!page->mem_cgroup)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
* Slab objects are accounted individually, not per-page.
* Memcg membership data for each individual object is saved in
* the page->obj_cgroups.