Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm...

[linux-drm-fsl-dcu.git] / fs / kernfs / dir.c

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 47dc636d80edd76d6c65e3325e92359ed6f2e93d..2d48d28e164015668dcc8d04ff72148f07f28e38 100644 (file)
--- 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;