Re: [PATCH] cgroup: missing rcu read lock around task_css_set

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Mar 27 2014 - 11:35:40 EST


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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