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Mike Galbraith reported a regression caused by the commit 9b6f7e16
("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting") on a system with
"cgroup_disable=memory" boot option: the system panics with the following
stack trace:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f8
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.19.0-preempt+ #410
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20180531_142017-buildhw-08.phx2.fed4
  RIP: 0010:page_counter_try_charge+0x22/0xc0
  Code: 41 5d c3 c3 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 85 ff 0f 84 a7 00 00 00 41 56 48 89 f8 49 89 fe 49
  Call Trace:
   try_charge+0xcb/0x780
   memcg_kmem_charge_memcg+0x28/0x80
   memcg_kmem_charge+0x8b/0x1d0
   copy_process.part.41+0x1ca/0x2070
   _do_fork+0xd7/0x3d0
   do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x180
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The problem occurs because get_mem_cgroup_from_current() returns t...