Re: [next] cgroup,freezer: fix incomplete freezing when attaching tasks

From: Chen Ridong
Date: Wed Jun 18 2025 - 05:04:01 EST




On 2025/6/18 16:42, Michal Koutný wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 07:32:17AM +0000, Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> An issue was found:
>
> An obligatory reminder to move to freezer in the unifier hierarchy if
> possible. Thanks for the fix though.
>
Thanks, we are trying to switch to cgroup v2. However some products are
still using cgroup v1.

Thank you for your review.

BR,
Ridong

>>
>> # cd /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/
>> # mkdir test
>> # echo FROZEN > test/freezer.state
>> # cat test/freezer.state
>> FROZEN
>> # sleep 1000 &
>> [1] 863
>> # echo 863 > test/cgroup.procs
>> # cat test/freezer.state
>> FREEZING
>>
>> When tasks are migrated to a frozen cgroup, the freezer fails to
>> immediately freeze the tasks, causing the cgroup to remain in the
>> "FREEZING".
>>
>> The freeze_task() function is called before clearing the CGROUP_FROZEN
>> flag. This causes the freezing() check to incorrectly return false,
>> preventing __freeze_task() from being invoked for the migrated task.
>>
>> To fix this issue, clear the CGROUP_FROZEN state before calling
>> freeze_task().
>>
>> Fixes: f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
>> Reported-by: Zhong Jiawei <zhongjiawei1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>