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>,
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Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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Keerthana K <keerthana.kalyanasundaram@broadcom.com>,
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Brennan Lamoreaux <brennan.lamoreaux@broadcom.com>,
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netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
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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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