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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 6e4eb4312571..c6877fe9a831 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2707,6 +2707,14 @@ static void cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(void) struct task_struct *p, *g; write_lock(&css_set_lock); use_task_css_set_links = 1; + /* + * We need tasklist_lock because RCU is not safe against + * while_each_thread(). Besides, a forking task that has passed + * cgroup_post_fork() without seeing use_task_css_set_links = 1 + * is not guaranteed to have its child immediately visible in the + * tasklist if we walk through it with RCU. + */ + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); do_each_thread(g, p) { task_lock(p); /* @@ -2718,6 +2726,7 @@ static void cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(void) list_add(&p->cg_list, &p->cgroups->tasks); task_unlock(p); } while_each_thread(g, p); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); write_unlock(&css_set_lock); } @@ -4522,6 +4531,17 @@ void cgroup_fork_callbacks(struct task_struct *child) */ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child) { + /* + * use_task_css_set_links is set to 1 before we walk the tasklist + * under the tasklist_lock and we read it here after we added the child + * to the tasklist under the tasklist_lock as well. If the child wasn't + * yet in the tasklist when we walked through it from + * cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(), then use_task_css_set_links value + * should be visible now due to the paired locking and barriers implied + * by LOCK/UNLOCK: it is written before the tasklist_lock unlock + * in cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() and read here after the tasklist_lock + * lock on fork. + */ if (use_task_css_set_links) { write_lock(&css_set_lock); if (list_empty(&child->cg_list)) { |