Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm, memcg: fix memory.peak reset clobbering other fds' watermark

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Aug 2026 13:22:41 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.cgroups,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
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On Fri,  7 Aug 2026 16:59:58 +0800 Ridong <[email protected]> wrote:

> Two fixes for the per-fd memory.peak / memory.swap.peak handlers added in
> c6f53ed8f213. Each open fd reads back max(its own value, the shared
> local_watermark), and both bugs live in that scheme.

Thanks.

We're missing the preferred description of the worst-case
userspace-visible effects of the bug.  It appears they're quite minor
so I'll assume this series is a post-7.2 thing.

Sashiko might have found a similar race on the writer side:
	https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]