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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: shyju pv <shyju.pv@huawei.com>,
	Sanil kumar <sanil.kumar@huawei.com>,
	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, levinsasha928@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix dentry still in use bug when dropping css refs after umount
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:45:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120716164527.GB30872@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFB8F39.9030209@huawei.com>

Hello,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:11:05AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Right, but that should be safe. The css objects of the root cgroup are
> allocated at boot, and won't be destroyed at umount.
> 
> Furthermore when a cgroup hierarchy is going to be unmounted, those css's
> will be made to point to a cgroup named dummytop in rebind_subsystems(),
> and there's a syncronize_rcu() in the end of the function, so accessing
> css->cgroup is always safe.
> 
> In this case, dummytop->dentry is NULL, and that's safe too, because
> cgroup_path() is aware of this case.

I see.  Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-30  7:07 [PATCH] cgroup: fix dentry still in use bug when dropping css refs after umount Li Zefan
2012-06-30 14:34 ` Masanari Iida
2012-07-03 17:03 ` Tejun Heo
2012-07-03 22:52   ` Tejun Heo
2012-07-04  6:19     ` Li Zefan
2012-07-08  6:35       ` Tejun Heo
2012-07-10  2:11         ` Li Zefan
2012-07-16 16:45           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
     [not found]     ` <4ff55c60.27da440a.65ec.ffff83dfSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
2012-07-07 23:46       ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "cgroup: superblock can't be released with active dentries" 'Tejun Heo'
2012-07-07 23:46         ` [PATCH 2/2] cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount race 'Tejun Heo'
2012-07-14 12:08           ` Al Viro
2012-07-16 16:44             ` 'Tejun Heo'
2012-07-04  5:56   ` [PATCH] cgroup: fix dentry still in use bug when dropping css refs after umount Li Zefan

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