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cgroups: more safe tasklist locking in cgroup_attach_proc

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Fix unstable tasklist locking in cgroup_attach_proc.

According to this thread - https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/27/243 - RCU is
not sufficient to guarantee the tasklist is stable w.r.t.  de_thread and
exit.  Taking tasklist_lock for reading, instead of rcu_read_lock, ensures
proper exclusion.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ben Blum 2011-11-02 13:38:05 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 434a964daa
commit 33ef6b6984
1 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
goto out_free_group_list;
/* prevent changes to the threadgroup list while we take a snapshot. */
rcu_read_lock();
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
if (!thread_group_leader(leader)) {
/*
* a race with de_thread from another thread's exec() may strip
@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
* throw this task away and try again (from cgroup_procs_write);
* this is "double-double-toil-and-trouble-check locking".
*/
rcu_read_unlock();
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
retval = -EAGAIN;
goto out_free_group_list;
}
@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
} while_each_thread(leader, tsk);
/* remember the number of threads in the array for later. */
group_size = i;
rcu_read_unlock();
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
/*
* step 1: check that we can legitimately attach to the cgroup.