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author | Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> | 2013-10-31 16:34:15 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-10-31 16:58:13 -0700 |
commit | 696ac172fffa653dca401bb2b0cad91cf2ce453f (patch) | |
tree | fec0af0d449705ddfd6145c02cf0420579608d9f /security | |
parent | 0056f4e66a1b8f00245248877e80386af36af14c (diff) |
mm: memcg: fix test for child groups
When memcg code needs to know whether any given memcg has children, it
uses the cgroup child iteration primitives and returns true/false
depending on whether the iteration loop is executed at least once or
not.
Because a cgroup's list of children is RCU protected, these primitives
require the RCU read-lock to be held, which is not the case for all
memcg callers. This results in the following splat when e.g. enabling
hierarchy mode:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at kernel/cgroup.c:3043 css_next_child+0xa3/0x160()
CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 3.12.0-rc5-00117-g83f11a9-dirty #18
Hardware name: LENOVO 3680B56/3680B56, BIOS 6QET69WW (1.39 ) 04/26/2012
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x54/0x74
warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xa0
warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
css_next_child+0xa3/0x160
mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write+0x5b/0xa0
cgroup_file_write+0x108/0x2a0
vfs_write+0xbd/0x1e0
SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
In the memcg case, we only care about children when we are attempting to
modify inheritable attributes interactively. Racing with deletion could
mean a spurious -EBUSY, no problem. Racing with addition is handled
just fine as well through the memcg_create_mutex: if the child group is
not on the list after the mutex is acquired, it won't be initialized
from the parent's attributes until after the unlock.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
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