From 9157056da8f8c4a6305f15619e269f164b63a6de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:55:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix invalid controller enable rejections with cgroup namespace On the v2 hierarchy, "cgroup.subtree_control" rejects controller enables if the cgroup has processes in it. The enforcement of this logic assumes that the cgroup wouldn't have any css_sets associated with it if there are no tasks in the cgroup, which is no longer true since a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces"). When a cgroup namespace is created, it pins the css_set of the creating task to use it as the root css_set of the namespace. This extra reference stays as long as the namespace is around and makes "cgroup.subtree_control" think that the namespace root cgroup is not empty even when it is and thus reject controller enables. Fix it by making cgroup_subtree_control() walk and test emptiness of each css_set instead of testing whether the list_head is empty. While at it, update the comment of cgroup_task_count() to indicate that the returned value may be higher than the number of tasks, which has always been true due to temporary references and doesn't break anything. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Evgeny Vereshchagin Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Aditya Kali Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+ Fixes: a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces") Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3589#issuecomment-249089541 --- kernel/cgroup.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index d1c51b7f5221..0d4ee1ea5c31 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -3446,9 +3446,28 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_subtree_control_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, * Except for the root, subtree_control must be zero for a cgroup * with tasks so that child cgroups don't compete against tasks. */ - if (enable && cgroup_parent(cgrp) && !list_empty(&cgrp->cset_links)) { - ret = -EBUSY; - goto out_unlock; + if (enable && cgroup_parent(cgrp)) { + struct cgrp_cset_link *link; + + /* + * Because namespaces pin csets too, @cgrp->cset_links + * might not be empty even when @cgrp is empty. Walk and + * verify each cset. + */ + spin_lock_irq(&css_set_lock); + + ret = 0; + list_for_each_entry(link, &cgrp->cset_links, cset_link) { + if (css_set_populated(link->cset)) { + ret = -EBUSY; + break; + } + } + + spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock); + + if (ret) + goto out_unlock; } /* save and update control masks and prepare csses */ @@ -3899,7 +3918,9 @@ void cgroup_file_notify(struct cgroup_file *cfile) * cgroup_task_count - count the number of tasks in a cgroup. * @cgrp: the cgroup in question * - * Return the number of tasks in the cgroup. + * Return the number of tasks in the cgroup. The returned number can be + * higher than the actual number of tasks due to css_set references from + * namespace roots and temporary usages. */ static int cgroup_task_count(const struct cgroup *cgrp) { -- 2.20.1