Consider the following memcg hierarchy.

                    root
                   /    \
                  A      B

If we get the objcg of memcg A failed, the get_obj_cgroup_from_current
can return the wrong objcg for the root memcg.

Fixes: bf4f059954dc ("mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
---
 changelog in v2:
 1. Do not use a comparison with the root_mem_cgroup

 mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1337775b04f3..8c8b4c3ed5a0 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2961,6 +2961,7 @@ __always_inline struct obj_cgroup 
*get_obj_cgroup_from_current(void)
                objcg = rcu_dereference(memcg->objcg);
                if (objcg && obj_cgroup_tryget(objcg))
                        break;
+               objcg = NULL;
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
-- 
2.20.1

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