[PATCH] cgroup_clone: use pid of newly created task for new cgroup

Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-12T00:35:01Z

cgroup_clone creates a new cgroup with the pid of the task. This works
correctly for unshare, but for clone cgroup_clone is called from
copy_namespaces inside copy_process, which happens before the new pid
is created. As a result, the new cgroup was created with current's pid.
This patch:

1. Moves the call inside copy_process to after the new pid
is created
2. Passes the struct pid into ns_cgroup_clone (as it is not
yet attached to the task)
3. Passes a name from ns_cgroup_clone() into cgroup_clone()
so as to keep cgroup_clone() itself simpler
4. Uses pid_vnr() to get the process id value, so that the
pid used to name the new cgroup is always the pid as it
would be known to the task which did the cloning or
unsharing. I think that is the most intuitive thing to
do. This way, task t1 does clone(CLONE_NEWPID) to get
t2, which does clone(CLONE_NEWPID) to get t3, then the
cgroup for t3 will be named for the pid by which t2 knows
t3.

(Thanks to Dan Smith for finding the main bug)

Changelog:
June 11: Incorporate Paul Menage's feedback: don't pass
NULL to ns_cgroup_clone from unshare, and reduce
patch size by using 'nodename' in cgroup_clone.
June 10: Original version

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Tested-by: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/cgroup.h | 3 ++-
include/linux/nsproxy.h | 7 +++++--
kernel/cgroup.c | 7 +++----
kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++
kernel/ns_cgroup.c | 7 +++++--
kernel/nsproxy.c | 8 +-------
6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 3690c3b..72cb6ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -349,7 +349,8 @@ static inline struct cgroup* task_cgroup(struct task_struct *task,
return task_subsys_state(task, subsys_id)->cgroup;
}

-int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *ss);
+int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
+ char *nodename);

/* A cgroup_iter should be treated as an opaque object */
struct cgroup_iter {
diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
index 0e66b57..c8a768e 100644
--- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
+++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
@@ -82,9 +82,12 @@ static inline void get_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_NS
-int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk);
+int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid *pid);
#else
-static inline int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk) { return 0; }
+static inline int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid *pid)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif

#endif
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 79fa060..b4c4b75 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2869,16 +2869,17 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int run_callbacks)
* cgroup_clone - clone the cgroup the given subsystem is attached to
* @tsk: the task to be moved
* @subsys: the given subsystem
+ * @nodename: the name for the new cgroup
*
* Duplicate the current cgroup in the hierarchy that the given
* subsystem is attached to, and move this task into the new
* child.
*/
-int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys)
+int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
+ char *nodename)
{
struct dentry *dentry;
int ret = 0;
- char nodename[MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN];
struct cgroup *parent, *child;
struct inode *inode;
struct css_set *cg;
@@ -2903,8 +2904,6 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys)
cg = tsk->cgroups;
parent = task_cgroup(tsk, subsys->subsys_id);

- snprintf(nodename, MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN, "%d", tsk->pid);
-
/* Pin the hierarchy */
atomic_inc(&parent->root->sb->s_active);

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f0e7767..47c0a97 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1125,6 +1125,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
p->tgid = current->tgid;

+ if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
+ if ((retval = ns_cgroup_clone(p, pid)))
+ goto bad_fork_free_pid;
+
p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
/*
* Clear TID on mm_release()?
diff --git a/kernel/ns_cgroup.c b/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
index 48d7ed6..6431fb7 100644
--- a/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
@@ -24,9 +24,12 @@ static inline struct ns_cgroup *cgroup_to_ns(
struct ns_cgroup, css);
}

-int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *task)
+int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *task, struct pid *pid)
{
- return cgroup_clone(task, &ns_subsys);
+ char name[PROC_NUMBUF];
+
+ snprintf(name, PROC_NUMBUF, "%d", pid_vnr(pid));
+ return cgroup_clone(task, &ns_subsys, name);
}

/*
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index adc7851..21575fc 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -157,12 +157,6 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
goto out;
}

- err = ns_cgroup_clone(tsk);
- if (err) {
- put_nsproxy(new_ns);
- goto out;
- }
-
tsk->nsproxy = new_ns;

out:
@@ -209,7 +203,7 @@ int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long unshare_flags,
goto out;
}

- err = ns_cgroup_clone(current);
+ err = ns_cgroup_clone(current, task_pid(current));
if (err)
put_nsproxy(*new_nsp);

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