[REGRESSION] cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some cases

[REGRESSION] cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some cases

[Daisuke Nishimura]

notify_on_release must be triggered when the last process in a cgroup is
move to another. But if the first(and only) process in a cgroup is moved to
another, notify_on_release is not triggered.

	# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/SRC
	# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/DST
	#
	# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/notify_on_release
	# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/notify_on_release
	#
	# sleep 300 &
	[1] 8629
	#
	# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/tasks
	# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/tasks
	-> notify_on_release for /SRC must be triggered at this point,
	   but it isn't.

This is because put_css_set() is called before setting CGRP_RELEASABLE
in cgroup_task_migrate(), and is a regression introduce by the
commit:74a1166d(cgroups: make procs file writable), which was merged
into v3.0.

Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0.x and later
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
---
This patch is based on v3.6.

 kernel/cgroup.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 7981850..7d01182 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1923,9 +1923,8 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
 	 * trading it for newcg is protected by cgroup_mutex, we're safe to drop
 	 * it here; it will be freed under RCU.
 	 */
-	put_css_set(oldcg);
-
 	set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &oldcgrp->flags);
+	put_css_set(oldcg);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
1.7.1

Re: [REGRESSION] cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some cases

[Li Zefan]

On 2012/10/4 15:37, Daisuke Nishimura wrote:
> notify_on_release must be triggered when the last process in a cgroup is
> move to another. But if the first(and only) process in a cgroup is moved to
> another, notify_on_release is not triggered.
> 
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/SRC
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/DST
> 	#
> 	# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/notify_on_release
> 	# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/notify_on_release
> 	#
> 	# sleep 300 &
> 	[1] 8629
> 	#
> 	# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/tasks
> 	# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/tasks
> 	-> notify_on_release for /SRC must be triggered at this point,
> 	   but it isn't.
> 
> This is because put_css_set() is called before setting CGRP_RELEASABLE
> in cgroup_task_migrate(), and is a regression introduce by the
> commit:74a1166d(cgroups: make procs file writable), which was merged
> into v3.0.
> 
> Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0.x and later
> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
> ---
> This patch is based on v3.6.
> 
>  kernel/cgroup.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 7981850..7d01182 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -1923,9 +1923,8 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
>  	 * trading it for newcg is protected by cgroup_mutex, we're safe to drop
>  	 * it here; it will be freed under RCU.
>  	 */
> -	put_css_set(oldcg);
> -
>  	set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &oldcgrp->flags);
> +	put_css_set(oldcg);

Good catch. Also we might end up with invalid memory access! 

Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

>  }
>  
>  /**
> 

Re: [REGRESSION] cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some cases

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Daisuke Nishimura wrote:
> notify_on_release must be triggered when the last process in a cgroup is
> move to another. But if the first(and only) process in a cgroup is moved to
> another, notify_on_release is not triggered.
> 
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/SRC
> 	# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/DST
> 	#
> 	# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/notify_on_release
> 	# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/notify_on_release
> 	#
> 	# sleep 300 &
> 	[1] 8629
> 	#
> 	# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/tasks
> 	# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/tasks
> 	-> notify_on_release for /SRC must be triggered at this point,
> 	   but it isn't.
> 
> This is because put_css_set() is called before setting CGRP_RELEASABLE
> in cgroup_task_migrate(), and is a regression introduce by the
> commit:74a1166d(cgroups: make procs file writable), which was merged
> into v3.0.
> 
> Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0.x and later
> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>

Applied to cgroup/for-3.7-fixes w/ Li's ack added.

Thanks!

-- 
tejun