[PATCH] cgroup: missing rcu read lock around task_css_set
Sasha Levin
sasha.levin at oracle.com
Thu Mar 27 15:35:09 UTC 2014
On 03/04/2014 07:57 PM, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2014/3/5 3:47, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 12:20:45PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> Hrm... there is a PF_EXITING check there already:
>>>>
>>>> #define task_css_set_check(task, __c) \
>>>> rcu_dereference_check((task)->cgroups, \
>>>> lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex) || \
>>>> lockdep_is_held(&css_set_rwsem) || \
>>>> ((task)->flags & PF_EXITING) || (__c))
>>>>
>>>> I see it's not happening on Linus's master so I'll run a bisection to figure out what broke it.
>>>
>>> Hi Tejun,
>>>
>>> It bisects down to your patch: "cgroup: drop task_lock() protection
>>> around task->cgroups". I'll look into it later unless it's obvious
>>> to you.
>>
>> Hmmm... maybe I'm confused and PF_EXITING is not set there and
>> task_lock was what held off the lockdep warning. Confused....
>>
>
> Because this cgroup_exit() is called in a failure path in copy_process().
It seems there was no conclusion here and it still happens in -next, anything
we can do about it?
Thanks,
Sasha
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