Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: hugetlb: switch to css_tryget() in hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup()

Tejun Heo
2019-11-07T15:44:18Z

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 02:51:31PM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> An exiting task might belong to an offline cgroup. In this case
> an attempt to grab a cgroup reference from the task can end up
> with an infinite loop in hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup(), because
> neither the cgroup will become online, neither the task will
> be migrated to a live cgroup.
>
> Fix this by switching over to css_tryget(). As css_tryget_online()
> can't guarantee that the cgroup won't go offline, in most cases
> the check doesn't make sense. In this particular case users of
> hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup() are not affected by this change.
>
> A similar problem is described by commit 18fa84a2db0e ("cgroup: Use
> css_tryget() instead of css_tryget_online() in task_get_css()").
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

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tejun