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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-04-17 11:37:15 +0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-18 08:17:57 -0700 |
| commit | 0e04388f0189fa1f6812a8e1cb6172136eada87e (patch) | |
| tree | 4e0bf422e8ed6b61b840ac45dadaca84b954f7ad /kernel/cgroup.c | |
| parent | 4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f (diff) | |
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cgroup: fix a race condition in manipulating tsk->cg_list
When I ran a test program to fork mass processes and at the same time
'cat /cgroup/tasks', I got the following oops:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:72!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 4178, comm: a.out Not tainted (2.6.25-rc9 #72)
...
Call Trace:
[<c044a5f9>] ? cgroup_exit+0x55/0x94
[<c0427acf>] ? do_exit+0x217/0x5ba
[<c0427ed7>] ? do_group_exit+0.65/0x7c
[<c0427efd>] ? sys_exit_group+0xf/0x11
[<c0404842>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<c05e0000>] ? init_cyrix+0x2fa/0x479
...
EIP: [<c04df671>] list_del+0x35/0x53 SS:ESP 0068:ebc7df4
---[ end trace caffb7332252612b ]---
Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
After digging into the code and debugging, I finlly found out a race
situation:
do_exit()
->cgroup_exit()
->if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list))
list_del(&tsk->cg_list);
cgroup_iter_start()
->cgroup_enable_task_cg_list()
->list_add(&tsk->cg_list, ..);
In this case the list won't be deleted though the process has exited.
We got two bug reports in the past, which seem to be the same bug as
this one:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/332
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/224
Actually sometimes I got oops on list_del, sometimes oops on list_add.
And I can change my test program a bit to trigger other oops.
The patch has been tested both on x86_32 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 2727f9238359..6d8de051382b 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1722,7 +1722,12 @@ void cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(void) use_task_css_set_links = 1; do_each_thread(g, p) { task_lock(p); - if (list_empty(&p->cg_list)) + /* + * 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. + */ + if (!(p->flags & PF_EXITING) && list_empty(&p->cg_list)) list_add(&p->cg_list, &p->cgroups->tasks); task_unlock(p); } while_each_thread(g, p); |