Re: [PATCH 3/5] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task()

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:30:40PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:
> 
>   $ cat /proc/sched_debug
> 
> ...
> kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
> ...
> 
> Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either
> rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held.

Queued for 2.6.34, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched_debug.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c
> index 9cf1baf..87a330a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_debug.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c
> @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ print_task(struct seq_file *m, struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
>  	{
>  		char path[64];
> 
> +		rcu_read_lock();
>  		cgroup_path(task_group(p)->css.cgroup, path, sizeof(path));
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		SEQ_printf(m, " %s", path);
>  	}
>  #endif
> -- 
> 1.6.3
> 
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