From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753629AbaC3XzS (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:55:18 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:37332 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754619AbaC3Xn3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:43:29 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Li Zefan" , "Tejun Heo" Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:23:35 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 129/200] cgroup: update cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglock In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo commit 532de3fc72adc2a6525c4d53c07bf81e1732083d upstream. Currently, there's nothing preventing cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() from missing set PF_EXITING and race against cgroup_exit(). Depending on the timing, cgroup_exit() may finish with the task still linked on css_set leading to list corruption. Fix it by grabbing siglock in cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() so that PF_EXITING is guaranteed to be visible. This whole on-demand cg_list optimization is extremely fragile and has ample possibility to lead to bugs which can cause things like once-a-year oops during boot. I'm wondering whether the better approach would be just adding "cgroup_disable=all" handling which disables the whole cgroup rather than tempting fate with this on-demand craziness. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/cgroup.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2785,9 +2785,14 @@ static void cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists( * We should check if the process is exiting, otherwise * it will race with cgroup_exit() in that the list * entry won't be deleted though the process has exited. + * Do it while holding siglock so that we don't end up + * racing against cgroup_exit(). */ + spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock); if (!(p->flags & PF_EXITING) && list_empty(&p->cg_list)) list_add(&p->cg_list, &p->cgroups->tasks); + spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock); + task_unlock(p); } while_each_thread(g, p); write_unlock(&css_set_lock);