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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-06-25 11:48:32 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-21 18:21:25 -0700
commitb6891ed4e66b65e5d6bb36964af0d65a08590018 (patch)
treee076e3ab8dd110873fe714af8e27c2e6d395b617 /Documentation
parent83d0eb79752482bb888fb6d86ceed8971272f8b4 (diff)
cgroup: fix RCU accesses to task->cgroups
commit 14611e51a57df10240817d8ada510842faf0ec51 upstream. task->cgroups is a RCU pointer pointing to struct css_set. A task switches to a different css_set on cgroup migration but a css_set doesn't change once created and its pointers to cgroup_subsys_states aren't RCU protected. task_subsys_state[_check]() is the macro to acquire css given a task and subsys_id pair. It RCU-dereferences task->cgroups->subsys[] not task->cgroups, so the RCU pointer task->cgroups ends up being dereferenced without read_barrier_depends() after it. It's broken. Fix it by introducing task_css_set[_check]() which does RCU-dereference on task->cgroups. task_subsys_state[_check]() is reimplemented to directly dereference ->subsys[] of the css_set returned from task_css_set[_check](). This removes some of sparse RCU warnings in cgroup. v2: Fixed unbalanced parenthsis and there's no need to use rcu_dereference_raw() when !CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. Both spotted by Li. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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