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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/urgent 04/10] cgroup: Fix an RCU warning in cgroup_path()
Date: Mon,  3 May 2010 11:53:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272912799-17859-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100503185253.GA17672@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:

  # mount -t cgroup -o debug xxx /mnt
  # cat /proc/$$/cgroup

...
kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
...

This is a false-positive, because cgroup_path() can be called
with either rcu_read_lock() held or cgroup_mutex held.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |   12 +++++++++---
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index e2769e1..4ca928d 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1646,7 +1646,9 @@ static inline struct cftype *__d_cft(struct dentry *dentry)
 int cgroup_path(const struct cgroup *cgrp, char *buf, int buflen)
 {
 	char *start;
-	struct dentry *dentry = rcu_dereference(cgrp->dentry);
+	struct dentry *dentry = rcu_dereference_check(cgrp->dentry,
+						      rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+						      cgroup_lock_is_held());
 
 	if (!dentry || cgrp == dummytop) {
 		/*
@@ -1662,13 +1664,17 @@ int cgroup_path(const struct cgroup *cgrp, char *buf, int buflen)
 	*--start = '\0';
 	for (;;) {
 		int len = dentry->d_name.len;
+
 		if ((start -= len) < buf)
 			return -ENAMETOOLONG;
-		memcpy(start, cgrp->dentry->d_name.name, len);
+		memcpy(start, dentry->d_name.name, len);
 		cgrp = cgrp->parent;
 		if (!cgrp)
 			break;
-		dentry = rcu_dereference(cgrp->dentry);
+
+		dentry = rcu_dereference_check(cgrp->dentry,
+					       rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+					       cgroup_lock_is_held());
 		if (!cgrp->parent)
 			continue;
 		if (--start < buf)
-- 
1.7.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 18:52 [PATCH tip/core/urgent 0/10] v3: Fix RCU lockdep splats Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 01/10] rcu: v2: optionally leave lockdep enabled after RCU lockdep splat Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 02/10] KEYS: Fix an RCU warning Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 03/10] KEYS: Fix an RCU warning in the reading of user keys Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 05/10] cgroup: Fix an RCU warning in alloc_css_id() Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 06/10] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task() Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 07/10] cgroup: Check task_lock in task_subsys_state() Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 08/10] memcg: css_id() must be called under rcu_read_lock() Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-07 19:11   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-10  0:17     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-10  5:46       ` [BUGFIX][PATCH 1/2] cgroup/cssid/memcg rcu fixes. (Was " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-10  5:48         ` [BUGFIX][PATCH 2/2] " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 09/10] blk-cgroup: Fix RCU correctness warning in cfq_init_queue() Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-03 18:53 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 10/10] vfs: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc access Paul E. McKenney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-01  0:25 [PATCH tip/core/urgent 0/10] v2: Fix RCU lockdep splats Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-01  0:26 ` [PATCH tip/core/urgent 04/10] cgroup: Fix an RCU warning in cgroup_path() Paul E. McKenney

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