From patchwork Thu Nov 22 04:46:33 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 200952 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from chlorine.canonical.com (chlorine.canonical.com [91.189.94.204]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF282C0081 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:46:50 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbOgS-0003IN-Rj; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:46:40 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbOgP-0003G4-FC for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:46:37 +0000 Received: from 200.146.81.226.dynamic.adsl.gvt.net.br ([200.146.81.226] helo=canonical.com) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbOgO-0003xL-Pw; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:46:37 +0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: Tejun Heo Subject: [ 3.5.yuz extended stable ] Patch "Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()"" has been added to staging queue Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:46:33 -0200 Message-Id: <1353559593-319-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Li Zefan X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()" to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Herton ------ From 3f211f446adfd5ff0430ef71a5d983d80f75219c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:52:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()" commit 9bb71308b8133d643648776243e4d5599b1c193d upstream. This reverts commit 7e381b0eb1e1a9805c37335562e8dc02e7d7848c. The commit incorrectly assumed that fork path always performed threadgroup_change_begin/end() and depended on that for synchronization against task exit and cgroup migration paths instead of explicitly grabbing task_lock(). threadgroup_change is not locked when forking a new process (as opposed to a new thread in the same process) and even if it were it wouldn't be effective as different processes use different threadgroup locks. Revert the incorrect optimization. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo LKML-Reference: <20121008020000.GB2575@localhost> Acked-by: Li Zefan Bitterly-Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- kernel/cgroup.c | 23 ++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5 diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 63c9596..75d4318 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4739,31 +4739,20 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_cgroupstats_operations = { * * A pointer to the shared css_set was automatically copied in * fork.c by dup_task_struct(). However, we ignore that copy, since - * it was not made under the protection of RCU, cgroup_mutex or - * threadgroup_change_begin(), so it might no longer be a valid - * cgroup pointer. cgroup_attach_task() might have already changed - * current->cgroups, allowing the previously referenced cgroup - * group to be removed and freed. - * - * Outside the pointer validity we also need to process the css_set - * inheritance between threadgoup_change_begin() and - * threadgoup_change_end(), this way there is no leak in any process - * wide migration performed by cgroup_attach_proc() that could otherwise - * miss a thread because it is too early or too late in the fork stage. + * it was not made under the protection of RCU or cgroup_mutex, so + * might no longer be a valid cgroup pointer. cgroup_attach_task() might + * have already changed current->cgroups, allowing the previously + * referenced cgroup group to be removed and freed. * * At the point that cgroup_fork() is called, 'current' is the parent * task, and the passed argument 'child' points to the child task. */ void cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *child) { - /* - * We don't need to task_lock() current because current->cgroups - * can't be changed concurrently here. The parent obviously hasn't - * exited and called cgroup_exit(), and we are synchronized against - * cgroup migration through threadgroup_change_begin(). - */ + task_lock(current); child->cgroups = current->cgroups; get_css_set(child->cgroups); + task_unlock(current); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&child->cg_list); }