Re: [PATCH 3/5] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task()

Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-22T10:20:12Z

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:30 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:
>
> $ cat /proc/sched_debug
>
> ...
> kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
> ...
>
> Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either
> rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held.

Well, that's not strictly true, but yes in this case it appears to be a
genuine race, since only tasklist_lock is held and that doesn't protect
us from the task changing groups (and thus the current group from going
away on us).

You can also pin a cgroup by holding whatever locks are held in the
->attach method. But the RCU annotation doesn't know (nor reasonably can
know about that).

> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched_debug.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c
> index 9cf1baf..87a330a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_debug.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c
> @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ print_task(struct seq_file *m, struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
> {
> char path[64];
>
> + rcu_read_lock();
> cgroup_path(task_group(p)->css.cgroup, path, sizeof(path));
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> SEQ_printf(m, " %s", path);
> }
> #endif