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Subject[PATCH v2 cgroup/for-3.15] cgroup: make cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglock
Currently, there's nothing explicitly preventing
cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() from missing set PF_EXITING and race
against cgroup_exit(), and, depending on the timing, cgroup_exit()
seemingly may finish with the task still linked on css_set leading to
list corruption because cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() can end up
linking it after list_empty(&tsk->cg_list) test in cgroup_exit().

This can't really happen because exit_mm() grabs and release
task_lock() between setting of PF_EXITING and cgroup_exit(), and
cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() synchronizes against task_lock too;
however, this is fragile and more of a happy accident. Let's make the
synchronization explicit by making cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() grab
siglock around PF_EXITING testing.

This whole on-demand cg_list optimization is extremely fragile and has
ample possibility to lead to bugs which can cause things like
once-a-year oops during boot. I'm wondering whether the better
approach would be just adding "cgroup_disable=all" handling which
disables the whole cgroup rather than tempting fate with this dynamic
optimization craziness.

v2: Li pointed out that the race condition can't actually happen due
to task_lock locking in exit_mm(). Updated the patch description
accordingly and dropped -stable cc.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1331,9 +1331,13 @@ static void cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(
* We should check if the process is exiting, otherwise
* it will race with cgroup_exit() in that the list
* entry won't be deleted though the process has exited.
+ * Do it while holding siglock so that we don't end up
+ * racing against cgroup_exit().
*/
+ spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
if (!(p->flags & PF_EXITING))
list_add(&p->cg_list, &task_css_set(p)->tasks);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);

task_unlock(p);
} while_each_thread(g, p);

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