Is not locking task_lock in cgroup_fork() safe?
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Thu Oct 18 20:07:05 UTC 2012
Hello, Frederic.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:50:59PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Ah right I was confused. Hmm, indeed we have a race here on
> cgroup_fork(). How about using css_try_get() in cgroup_fork() and
> refetch the parent's css until we succeed? This requires rcu_read_lock
> though, and freeing the css_set under RCU.
>
> Don't know which is better.
For now, I'll revert the patches and cc stable. Let's think about
improving it later.
> Different problem but I really would like we sanitize the cgroup hooks
> in fork. There is cgroup_fork(), cgroup_post_fork() which takes that
> big css_set_lock, plus the big threadgroup lock... I hope we can
> simplify the mess there.
Oh yeah, I've been looking at that one too. There are a few problems
in that area. I think all we need is clearing ->cgroups to NULL on
copy_process() and all the rest can be moved to cgroup_post_fork().
I'd also like to make it very explicit that migration can't happen
before post_fork is complete.
> > I really don't know. Why isn't it locking the threadgroup to begin
> > with?
>
> No idea, sounds like something to fix.
Alrighty.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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