From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759889Ab2C2SL1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:11:27 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:35348 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759033Ab2C2SLU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:11:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:11:04 -0700 From: Mandeep Singh Baines To: Tejun Heo Cc: Jiri Kosina , Mandeep Singh Baines , lizefan@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Paul Menage , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH for-3.4-fixes] cgroup: cgroup_attach_task() could return -errno after success Message-ID: <20120329181104.GC27051@google.com> References: <20120329160433.GC28941@google.com> <20120329162620.GD28941@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120329162620.GD28941@google.com> X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.38.8-gg683 (x86_64) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo (tj@kernel.org) wrote: > 61d1d219c4 "cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set" made > cgroup_task_migrate() return void. An unfortunate side effect was > that cgroup_attach_task() was depending on that function's return > value to clear its @retval on the success path. On cgroup mounts > without any subsystem with ->can_attach() callback, > cgroup_attach_task() ended up returning @retval without initializing > it on success. > > For some reason, gcc failed to warn about it and it didn't cause > cgroup_attach_task() to return non-zero value in many cases, probably > due to difference in register allocation. When the problem > materializes, systemd fails to populate /systemd cgroup mount and > fails to boot. > > Fix it by initializing @retval to zero on declaration. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines > Reported-by: Jiri Kosina > LKML-Reference: > --- > Jiri, can you please confirm the fix? > > Thanks. > > kernel/cgroup.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c > index f4ea4b6..ed64cca 100644 > --- a/kernel/cgroup.c > +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c > @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp, > */ > int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk) > { > - int retval; > + int retval = 0; > struct cgroup_subsys *ss, *failed_ss = NULL; > struct cgroup *oldcgrp; > struct cgroupfs_root *root = cgrp->root;