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From: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	<containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<cgroups@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: missing rcu read lock around task_css_set
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:57:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53167662.5000801@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140304194741.GA2204@htj.dyndns.org>

On 2014/3/5 3:47, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 12:20:45PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> Hrm... there is a PF_EXITING check there already:
>>>
>>>     #define task_css_set_check(task, __c)            \
>>>         rcu_dereference_check((task)->cgroups,        \
>>>         lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex) ||        \
>>>         lockdep_is_held(&css_set_rwsem) ||        \
>>>         ((task)->flags & PF_EXITING) || (__c))
>>>
>>> I see it's not happening on Linus's master so I'll run a bisection to figure out what broke it.
>>
>> Hi Tejun,
>>
>> It bisects down to your patch: "cgroup: drop task_lock() protection
>> around task->cgroups". I'll look into it later unless it's obvious
>> to you.
> 
> Hmmm... maybe I'm confused and PF_EXITING is not set there and
> task_lock was what held off the lockdep warning.  Confused....
> 

Because this cgroup_exit() is called in a failure path in copy_process().


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-02  3:00 [PATCH] cgroup: missing rcu read lock around task_css_set Sasha Levin
2014-03-03 22:33 ` Tejun Heo
2014-03-03 22:43   ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-03 22:45     ` Tejun Heo
2014-03-03 22:48       ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-03 23:00       ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-04 17:20         ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-04 19:47           ` Tejun Heo
2014-03-05  0:57             ` Li Zefan [this message]
2014-03-27 15:35               ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-28  2:48                 ` Li Zefan

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