From 4e139afc22cb98d0d032ffce0285bfcc73ca5217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:13:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: create directory before linking while creating a new cgroup While creating a new cgroup, cgroup_create() links the newly allocated cgroup into various places before trying to create its directory. Because cgroup life-cycle is tied to the vfs objects, this makes it impossible to use cgroup_rmdir() for rolling back creation - the removal logic depends on having full vfs objects. This patch moves directory creation above linking and collect linking operations to one place. This allows directory creation failure to share error exit path with css allocation failures and any failure sites afterwards (to be added later) can use cgroup_rmdir() logic to undo creation. Note that this also makes the memory barriers around cgroup->dentry, which currently is misleadingly using RCU operations, unnecessary. This will be handled in the next patch. While at it, locking BUG_ON() on i_mutex is converted to lockdep_assert_held(). v2: Patch originally removed %NULL dentry check in cgroup_path(); however, Li pointed out that this patch doesn't make it unnecessary as ->create() may call cgroup_path(). Drop the change for now. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan --- kernel/cgroup.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index b042673171e9..d62a529db2f7 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4112,15 +4112,22 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, } } - list_add_tail_rcu(&cgrp->sibling, &cgrp->parent->children); - root->number_of_cgroups++; - + /* + * Create directory. cgroup_create_file() returns with the new + * directory locked on success so that it can be populated without + * dropping cgroup_mutex. + */ err = cgroup_create_file(dentry, S_IFDIR | mode, sb); if (err < 0) - goto err_remove; + goto err_destroy; + lockdep_assert_held(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + /* allocation complete, commit to creation */ dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp; rcu_assign_pointer(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++; for_each_subsys(root, ss) { /* each css holds a ref to the cgroup's dentry */ @@ -4131,11 +4138,6 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, ss->post_create(cgrp); } - /* The cgroup directory was pre-locked for us */ - BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&cgrp->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex)); - - list_add_tail(&cgrp->allcg_node, &root->allcg_list); - err = cgroup_populate_dir(cgrp, true, root->subsys_mask); /* If err < 0, we have a half-filled directory - oh well ;) */ @@ -4144,20 +4146,12 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, return 0; - err_remove: - - list_del_rcu(&cgrp->sibling); - root->number_of_cgroups--; - - err_destroy: - +err_destroy: for_each_subsys(root, ss) { if (cgrp->subsys[ss->subsys_id]) ss->destroy(cgrp); } - mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); - /* Release the reference count that we took on the superblock */ deactivate_super(sb); err_free: -- 2.20.1