Re: [PATCH 2/3] cgroup: Iterate tasks that did not finish do_exit()

From: Suren Baghdasaryan
Date: Fri Jan 17 2020 - 13:41:44 EST


On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:28 AM Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:15:32PM +0100, Michal Koutnà wrote:
> > PF_EXITING is set earlier than actual removal from css_set when a task
> > is exitting. This can confuse cgroup.procs readers who see no PF_EXITING
> > tasks, however, rmdir is checking against css_set membership so it can
> > transitionally fail with EBUSY.
> >
> > Fix this by listing tasks that weren't unlinked from css_set active
> > lists.
> > It may happen that other users of the task iterator (without
> > CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS) spot a PF_EXITING task before cgroup_exit(). This
> > is equal to the state before commit c03cd7738a83 ("cgroup: Include dying
> > leaders with live threads in PROCS iterations") but it may be reviewed
> > later.

Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Yeah, this looks fine to me. Any chance you can order this before the
> clean up so that we can mark it for -stable.
>

+1 for reordering. Makes it easier to backport.
Thanks,
Suren.

> Thanks.
>
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