Re: [PATCH 2/2] cgroup: Use separate work structs on css release path

[Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

Hello, Michal.

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> // ref=A: initial state
> kill_css()
>   css_get // ref+=F == A+F: fuse
>   percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm
>     __percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic
>       percpu_ref_get
>         // ref += 1 == A+F+1: atomic mode, self-protection
>     percpu_ref_put
>       // ref -= 1 == A+F: kill the base reference
>   [via rcu]
>   percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu
>     percpu_ref_call_confirm_rcu
>       css_killed_ref_fn == refcnt.confirm_switch
>         queue_work(css->destroy_work)        (1)
>                                                      [via css->destroy_work]
>                                                      css_killed_work_fn == wq.func
>                                                        offline_css() // needs fuse
>                                                        css_put // ref -= F == A: de-fuse
>       percpu_ref_put
>         // ref -= 1 == A-1: remove self-protection
>         css_release                                   // A <= 1 -> 2nd queue_work explodes!

I'm not sure I'm following it but it's perfectly fine to re-use the work
item at this point. The work item actually can be re-cycled from the very
beginning of the work function. The only thing we need to make sure is that
we don't css_put() prematurely to avoid it being freed while we're using it.

For the sharing to be a problem, we should be queueing the release work item
while the destroy instance is still pending, and if that is the case, it
doesn't really matter whether we use two separate work items or not. We're
already broken and would just be shifting the problem to explode elsewhere.

The only possibility that I can think of is that somehow we're ending up
with an extra css_put() somewhere thus triggering the release path
prematurely. If that's the case, we'll prolly need to trace get/puts to find
out who's causing the ref imbalance.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun