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authorShridhar Rasal <srasal@nvidia.com>2013-10-24 08:37:51 +0530
committerBharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>2013-10-24 00:25:19 -0700
commit9289b72929c91cc435fd53fae3986d7fb8729146 (patch)
treea2015d546159a7b3570dd60eee93006c72f2dd0d /kernel
parent8631025377302cff1f011375d2669d3b545d89d6 (diff)
cgroup: fix to break the while loop in cgroup_attach_task() correctly
Both Anjana and Eunki reported a stall in the while_each_thread loop in cgroup_attach_task(). It's because, when we attach a single thread to a cgroup, if the cgroup is exiting or is already in that cgroup, we won't break the loop. If the task is already in the cgroup, the bug can lead to another thread being attached to the cgroup unexpectedly: # echo 5207 > tasks # cat tasks 5207 # echo 5207 > tasks # cat tasks 5207 5215 What's worse, if the task to be attached isn't the leader of the thread group, we might never exit the loop, hence cpu stall. Thanks for Oleg's analysis. This bug was introduced by commit 081aa458c38ba576bdd4265fc807fa95b48b9e79 ("cgroup: consolidate cgroup_attach_task() and cgroup_attach_proc()") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+ Reported-by: Eunki Kim <eunki_kim@samsung.com> Reported-by: Anjana V Kumar <anjanavk12@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anjana V Kumar <anjanavk12@gmail.com> [ lizf: - fixed the first continue, pointed out by Oleg, - rewrote changelog. ] Bug 1355677 Change-Id: Ifa356d9869e888a759c2be943cffd394a4102a9a Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Shridhar Rasal <srasal@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ajay Nandakumar <anandakumarm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/303135 Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 770c43a05c13..6111ef77cfdf 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ static int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk,
/* @tsk either already exited or can't exit until the end */
if (tsk->flags & PF_EXITING)
- continue;
+ goto next;
/* as per above, nr_threads may decrease, but not increase. */
BUG_ON(i >= group_size);
@@ -2003,7 +2003,7 @@ static int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk,
ent.cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(tsk, root);
/* nothing to do if this task is already in the cgroup */
if (ent.cgrp == cgrp)
- continue;
+ goto next;
/*
* saying GFP_ATOMIC has no effect here because we did prealloc
* earlier, but it's good form to communicate our expectations.
@@ -2012,6 +2012,7 @@ static int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk,
BUG_ON(retval != 0);
i++;
+next:
if (!threadgroup)
break;
} while_each_thread(leader, tsk);