From 0ab02ca8f887908152d1a96db5130fc661d36a1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:05:46 +0800
Subject: cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex
Setup cgroupfs like this:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup
# mkdir /cgroup/sub1
# mkdir /cgroup/sub2
Then run these two commands:
# for ((; ;)) { mkdir /cgroup/sub1/tmp && rmdir /mnt/sub1/tmp; } &
# for ((; ;)) { mkdir /cgroup/sub2/tmp && rmdir /mnt/sub2/tmp; } &
After seconds you may see this warning:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 25243 at lib/idr.c:527 sub_remove+0x87/0x1b0()
idr_remove called for id=6 which is not allocated.
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8156063c>] dump_stack+0x7a/0x96
[<ffffffff810591ac>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
[<ffffffff81059296>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff81300aa7>] sub_remove+0x87/0x1b0
[<ffffffff810f3f02>] ? css_killed_work_fn+0x32/0x1b0
[<ffffffff81300bf5>] idr_remove+0x25/0xd0
[<ffffffff810f2bab>] cgroup_destroy_css_killed+0x5b/0xc0
[<ffffffff810f4000>] css_killed_work_fn+0x130/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8107cdbc>] process_one_work+0x26c/0x550
[<ffffffff8107eefe>] worker_thread+0x12e/0x3b0
[<ffffffff81085f96>] kthread+0xe6/0xf0
[<ffffffff81570bac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
---[ end trace 2d1577ec10cf80d0 ]---
It's because allocating/removing cgroup ID is not properly synchronized.
The bug was introduced when we converted cgroup_ida to cgroup_idr.
While synchronization is already done inside ida_simple_{get,remove}(),
users are responsible for concurrent calls to idr_{alloc,remove}().
tj: Refreshed on top of b58c89986a77 ("cgroup: fix error return from
cgroup_create()").
Fixes: 4e96ee8e981b ("cgroup: convert cgroup_ida to cgroup_idr")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.12+
Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/cgroup.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
(limited to 'include/linux/cgroup.h')
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 5c097596104b..9450f025fe0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ struct cgroup {
*
* The ID of the root cgroup is always 0, and a new cgroup
* will be assigned with a smallest available ID.
+ *
+ * Allocating/Removing ID must be protected by cgroup_mutex.
*/
int id;
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