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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-05-04 15:09:14 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-05-04 15:09:14 -0400
commita2bed8209a3afc3b2cf1c28383fb48155c1fea46 (patch)
treeb0b7b2dbbd0bfa934353335cb73e5adbcf207986 /kernel
parent6fa4918d03c39351aef3573ac3e7958d6a5ad9b6 (diff)
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cgroup: use RCU free in create_css() failure path
Currently, when create_css() fails in the middle, the half-initialized css is freed by invoking cgroup_subsys->css_free() directly. This patch updates the function so that it invokes RCU free path instead. As the RCU free path puts the parent css and owning cgroup, their references are now acquired right after a new css is successfully allocated. This doesn't make any visible difference now but is to enable implementing css->id and RCU protected lookup by such IDs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 7cb9c0847445..0e2c401ed7b9 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4185,12 +4185,14 @@ static int create_css(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
if (IS_ERR(css))
return PTR_ERR(css);
+ init_css(css, ss, cgrp);
+ cgroup_get(cgrp);
+ css_get(css->parent);
+
err = percpu_ref_init(&css->refcnt, css_release);
if (err)
goto err_free_css;
- init_css(css, ss, cgrp);
-
err = cgroup_populate_dir(cgrp, 1 << ss->id);
if (err)
goto err_free_percpu_ref;
@@ -4199,9 +4201,6 @@ static int create_css(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
if (err)
goto err_clear_dir;
- cgroup_get(cgrp);
- css_get(css->parent);
-
if (ss->broken_hierarchy && !ss->warned_broken_hierarchy &&
parent->parent) {
pr_warn("%s (%d) created nested cgroup for controller \"%s\" which has incomplete hierarchy support. Nested cgroups may change behavior in the future.\n",
@@ -4218,7 +4217,7 @@ err_clear_dir:
err_free_percpu_ref:
percpu_ref_cancel_init(&css->refcnt);
err_free_css:
- ss->css_free(css);
+ call_rcu(&css->rcu_head, css_free_rcu_fn);
return err;
}