cgroups: fix lock inconsistency in cgroup_clone()
authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:25:21 +0000 (14:25 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:04:45 +0000 (18:04 -0800)
I fixed a bug in cgroup_clone() in Linus' tree in commit 7b574b7
("cgroups: fix a race between cgroup_clone and umount") without noticing
there was a cleanup patch in -mm tree that should be rebased (now commit
104cbd5, "cgroups: use task_lock() for access tsk->cgroups safe in
cgroup_clone()"), thus resulted in lock inconsistency.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/cgroup.c

index 2ae7cb47dbfa07ff13ab00776b64bd40bbfe09c8..0066092de19a7f0522810f11194a80d4a31409df 100644 (file)
@@ -2993,20 +2993,21 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
                mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
                return 0;
        }
-       task_lock(tsk);
-       cg = tsk->cgroups;
-       parent = task_cgroup(tsk, subsys->subsys_id);
 
        /* Pin the hierarchy */
-       if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&parent->root->sb->s_active)) {
+       if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&root->sb->s_active)) {
                /* We race with the final deactivate_super() */
                mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
                return 0;
        }
 
        /* Keep the cgroup alive */
+       task_lock(tsk);
+       parent = task_cgroup(tsk, subsys->subsys_id);
+       cg = tsk->cgroups;
        get_css_set(cg);
        task_unlock(tsk);
+
        mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 
        /* Now do the VFS work to create a cgroup */
@@ -3045,7 +3046,7 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
                mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
                put_css_set(cg);
 
-               deactivate_super(parent->root->sb);
+               deactivate_super(root->sb);
                /* The cgroup is still accessible in the VFS, but
                 * we're not going to try to rmdir() it at this
                 * point. */
@@ -3071,7 +3072,7 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
        mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
        put_css_set(cg);
        mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
-       deactivate_super(parent->root->sb);
+       deactivate_super(root->sb);
        return ret;
 }