[PATCH v2 3/3] cgroup: fix a race between cgroup_mount() and cgroup_kill_sb()

[Li Zefan]

We've converted cgroup to kernfs so cgroup won't be intertwined with
vfs objects and locking, but there are dark areas.

Run two instances of this script concurrently:

    for ((; ;))
    {
    	mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup
    	umount /cgroup
    }

After a while, I saw two mount processes were stuck at retrying, because
they were waiting for a subsystem to become free, but the root associated
with this subsystem never got freed.

This can happen, if thread A is in the process of killing superblock but
hasn't called percpu_ref_kill(), and at this time thread B is mounting
the same cgroup root and finds the root in the root list and performs
percpu_ref_try_get().

To fix this, we try to increase both the refcnt of the superblock and the
percpu refcnt of cgroup root.

v2:
- we should try to get both the superblock refcnt and cgroup_root refcnt,
  because cgroup_root may have no superblock assosiated with it.
- adjust/add comments.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index ae2b382..111b7c3 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1655,6 +1655,7 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	int ret;
 	int i, j = -1;
 	bool new_sb;
+	struct super_block *sb = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * The first time anyone tries to mount a cgroup, enable the list
@@ -1737,14 +1738,18 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
 		/*
 		 * A root's lifetime is governed by its root cgroup.
-		 * tryget_live failure indicate that the root is being
-		 * destroyed.  Wait for destruction to complete so that the
-		 * subsystems are free.  We can use wait_queue for the wait
-		 * but this path is super cold.  Let's just sleep for a bit
-		 * and retry.
+		 * pin_sb and tryget_live failure indicate that the root is
+		 * being destroyed.  Wait for destruction to complete so that
+		 * the subsystems are free.  We can use wait_queue for the
+		 * wait but this path is super cold.  Let's just sleep for
+		 * a bit and retry.
 		 */
-		if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
+		sb = kernfs_pin_sb(root->kf_root, NULL);
+		if (IS_ERR(sb) ||
+		    !percpu_ref_tryget_live(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
 			mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
+			if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sb))
+				deactivate_super(sb);
 			msleep(10);
 			ret = restart_syscall();
 			goto out_free;
@@ -1796,6 +1801,17 @@ out_free:
 	dentry = kernfs_mount(fs_type, flags, root->kf_root, &new_sb);
 	if (IS_ERR(dentry) || !new_sb)
 		cgroup_put(&root->cgrp);
+
+	if (sb) {
+		/*
+		 * On success kernfs_mount() returns with sb->s_umount held,
+		 * but kernfs_mount() also increases the superblock's refcnt,
+		 * so calling deactivate_super() to drop the refcnt we got when
+		 * looking up cgroup root won't acquire sb->s_umount again.
+		 */
+		WARN_ON(new_sb);
+		deactivate_super(sb);
+	}
 	return dentry;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.0.2

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