Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: memcontrol: make obj_cgroup_memcg() handle NULL objcg

Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 05:03:26PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
> 
> obj_cgroup_memcg() currently requires a non-NULL objcg, so callers that
> may hold a NULL objcg must guard the call with an explicit NULL check.
> This pattern is duplicated in folio_memcg(), folio_memcg_check(),
> mm/page_owner.c, and mm/zswap.c.
> 
> Teach obj_cgroup_memcg() to accept NULL and return NULL in that case, then
> remove the redundant NULL checks at the call sites.  Also remove the
> mem_cgroup_from_entry() wrapper in zswap, which existed solely to provide
> this NULL-safe behaviour, and replace its two callers with direct
> obj_cgroup_memcg() calls.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
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