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

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 07:32:17AM +0000, Chen Ridong wrote:
> From: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> An issue was found:
> 
> 	# 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>

Applied to cgroup/for-6.16-fixes w/ stable cc'd.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun