cgroup: initialize cgrp->dentry before css_alloc()
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:30:22 +0000 (14:30 +0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:05:17 +0000 (12:05 -0800)
With this change, we're guaranteed that cgroup_path() won't see NULL
cgrp->dentry, and thus we can remove the NULL check in it.

(Well, it's not strictly true, because dummptop.dentry is always NULL
 but we already handle that separately.)

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
kernel/cgroup.c

index 8da9048078c5df7ea5b333721d1c4e3a130a4877..a04932281bc9b0d7286244c7b639d00cb7e6bfe4 100644 (file)
@@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ int cgroup_path(const struct cgroup *cgrp, char *buf, int buflen)
        rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_read_lock_held() || cgroup_lock_is_held(),
                           "cgroup_path() called without proper locking");
 
-       if (!dentry || cgrp == dummytop) {
+       if (cgrp == dummytop) {
                /*
                 * Inactive subsystems have no dentry for their root
                 * cgroup
@@ -4153,6 +4153,9 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
 
        init_cgroup_housekeeping(cgrp);
 
+       dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp;
+       cgrp->dentry = dentry;
+
        cgrp->parent = parent;
        cgrp->root = parent->root;
        cgrp->top_cgroup = parent->top_cgroup;
@@ -4190,8 +4193,6 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
        lockdep_assert_held(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
        /* allocation complete, commit to creation */
-       dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp;
-       cgrp->dentry = dentry;
        list_add_tail(&cgrp->allcg_node, &root->allcg_list);
        list_add_tail_rcu(&cgrp->sibling, &cgrp->parent->children);
        root->number_of_cgroups++;