cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
authorMandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:36:43 +0000 (11:36 -0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:09:09 +0000 (09:09 -0800)
There is a BUG when migrating a PF_EXITING proc. Since css_set_prefetch()
is not called for the PF_EXITING case, find_existing_css_set() will return
NULL inside cgroup_task_migrate() causing a BUG.

This bug is easy to reproduce. Create a zombie and echo its pid to
cgroup.procs.

$ cat zombie.c
\#include <unistd.h>

int main()
{
  if (fork())
      pause();
  return 0;
}
$

We are hitting this bug pretty regularly on ChromeOS.

This bug is already fixed by Tejun Heo's cgroup patchset which is
targetted for the next merge window:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/1/356

I've create a smaller patch here which just fixes this bug so that a
fix can be merged into the current release and stable.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Downstream-Bug-Report: http://crosbug.com/23953
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
kernel/cgroup.c

index d9d5648f3cdcc4bcde3a7a67afe845aa89dc2a1f..a184470cf9b51c896826986deca941dd5dcf3d89 100644 (file)
@@ -2098,11 +2098,6 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
                        continue;
                /* get old css_set pointer */
                task_lock(tsk);
-               if (tsk->flags & PF_EXITING) {
-                       /* ignore this task if it's going away */
-                       task_unlock(tsk);
-                       continue;
-               }
                oldcg = tsk->cgroups;
                get_css_set(oldcg);
                task_unlock(tsk);