From: David Vernet Subject: cgroup: remove racy check in test_memcg_sock() test_memcg_sock() in the cgroup memcg tests, verifies expected memory accounting for sockets. The test forks a process which functions as a TCP server, and sends large buffers back and forth between itself (as the TCP client) and the forked TCP server. While doing so, it verifies that memory.current and memory.stat.sock look correct. There is currently a check in tcp_client() which asserts memory.current >= memory.stat.sock. This check is racy, as between memory.current and memory.stat.sock being queried, a packet could come in which causes mem_cgroup_charge_skmem() to be invoked. This could cause memory.stat.sock to exceed memory.current. Reversing the order of querying doesn't address the problem either, as memory may be reclaimed between the two calls. Instead, this patch just removes that assertion altogether, and instead relies on the values_close() check that follows to validate the expected accounting. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220423155619.3669555-5-void@manifault.com Signed-off-by: David Vernet Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c~cgroup-removing-racy-check-in-test_memcg_sock +++ a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c @@ -993,9 +993,6 @@ static int tcp_client(const char *cgroup if (current < 0 || sock < 0) goto close_sk; - if (current < sock) - goto close_sk; - if (values_close(current, sock, 10)) { ret = KSFT_PASS; break; _