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From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Mukul Sikka <mukul.sikka@broadcom.com>,
	Keerthana K <keerthana.kalyanasundaram@broadcom.com>,
	Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Brennan Lamoreaux <brennan.lamoreaux@broadcom.com>,
	Bin Lan <lanbincn@139.com>, XiaoHua Wang <561399680@139.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y v2] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: restore cloned mapping table memcg accounting
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:06:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261010120624.4946-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)

The 6.1.y backport of commit 69e687cea79f
("netfilter: nf_tables: missing objects with no memcg accounting")
changed the pipapo_clone() mapping-table allocation to
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.

The later stable backport of commit 07ace0bbe03b ("netfilter:
nft_set_pipapo: do not rely on ZERO_SIZE_PTR") rewrote this allocation
and changed the flag back to GFP_KERNEL. Upstream applied the
ZERO_SIZE_PTR change before the memcg accounting change and retains
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT after both.

nft_pipapo_deactivate() clones a populated set before looking up an
element to delete. If the element is absent, priv->dirty remains false
and the clone is retained. Its mapping tables therefore remain allocated
without being charged to the requesting memory cgroup.

Restore GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for the cloned mapping table.

Fixes: a4983e89e3b1 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: do not rely on ZERO_SIZE_PTR")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Split the combined 6.1.y/6.6.y submission into one email per branch.
- Keep only the Fixes tag for this branch.
- Refresh the diff against 6.1.189; the code change is unchanged.
- Add fresh build, runtime and matched A/B results for this branch.

Original submission:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260831194905.45045-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com/

Testing on 6.1.189: built a minimal x86_64 kernel with GCC 15.2.0
and booted it in QEMU with CONFIG_MEMCG=y. A 64-element two-field
interval set passed creation, lookup, update, rollback, deletion, flush
and reuse checks.

Matched unpatched and patched boots used the same kernel configuration
and initramfs. During a normal update from a memory cgroup, both cloned
mapping-table allocations (512 bytes each) had accounted=false without
the patch. With the patch, both used GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and had
accounted=true. Both variants passed normal set operations without
kernel warnings.

Earlier A/B testing on 6.1.186 and 6.6.155 measured 524,288 additional
charged bytes for the cloned mapping tables of a 32,768-element two-field
set. An unmodified 6.12.107 control already accounted that allocation.

 net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
index 4b37c6684bff..456779003f58 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c
@@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ static struct nft_pipapo_match *pipapo_clone(struct nft_pipapo_match *old)
 				goto out_mt;
 
 			dst->mt = kvmalloc_array(src->rules, sizeof(*src->mt),
-						 GFP_KERNEL);
+						 GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
 			if (!dst->mt)
 				goto out_mt;
 

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