Re: [PATCH 06/17] cgroup: remove duplicate RCU free on struct cgroup

[Li Zefan <lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 2012/11/13 11:01, Tejun Heo wrote:
> struct cgroup is made RCU-safe by synchronize_rcu() in cgroup_diput().

but synchronize_rcu() is called before ss->destroy().

rcu_read_lock();
for_each_leaf_cfs_rq(cpu_rq(cpu), cfs_rq)
	print_cfs_rq(m, cpu, cfs_rq);
	-> call cgroup_path(task_group->css.cgroup);
rcu_read_unlock();

With this patch, if the above code race with cgroup_diput(), we might
end up accessing a cgroup which has been freed.

> There is no reason to use RCU safe kfree on it after it.  Remove
> cgroup->rcu_head and use kfree() instead of kfree_rcu() in
> cgroup_diput().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/cgroup.h | 3 ---
>  kernel/cgroup.c        | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> index d605857..9dcbfa1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> @@ -196,9 +196,6 @@ struct cgroup {
>  	struct list_head pidlists;
>  	struct mutex pidlist_mutex;
>  
> -	/* For RCU-protected deletion */
> -	struct rcu_head rcu_head;
> -
>  	/* List of events which userspace want to receive */
>  	struct list_head event_list;
>  	spinlock_t event_list_lock;
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 278752e..a91e7ad 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ static void cgroup_diput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
>  
>  		simple_xattrs_free(&cgrp->xattrs);
>  
> -		kfree_rcu(cgrp, rcu_head);
> +		kfree(cgrp);

This was also added to prevent a race in group scheduling code, and I think the race still
exists.



>  	} else {
>  		struct cfent *cfe = __d_cfe(dentry);
>  		struct cgroup *cgrp = dentry->d_parent->d_fsdata;
>