cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:05:46 +0000 (16:05 +0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:38:30 +0000 (10:38 -0500)
commit0ab02ca8f887908152d1a96db5130fc661d36a1e
tree81f7be1f4da646a88ab09bd7c01927a4f2a180bf
parent48573a893303986e3b0b2974d6fb11f3d1bb7064
cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex

Setup cgroupfs like this:
  # mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup
  # mkdir /cgroup/sub1
  # mkdir /cgroup/sub2

Then run these two commands:
  # for ((; ;)) { mkdir /cgroup/sub1/tmp && rmdir /mnt/sub1/tmp; } &
  # for ((; ;)) { mkdir /cgroup/sub2/tmp && rmdir /mnt/sub2/tmp; } &

After seconds you may see this warning:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 25243 at lib/idr.c:527 sub_remove+0x87/0x1b0()
idr_remove called for id=6 which is not allocated.
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8156063c>] dump_stack+0x7a/0x96
 [<ffffffff810591ac>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81059296>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
 [<ffffffff81300aa7>] sub_remove+0x87/0x1b0
 [<ffffffff810f3f02>] ? css_killed_work_fn+0x32/0x1b0
 [<ffffffff81300bf5>] idr_remove+0x25/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810f2bab>] cgroup_destroy_css_killed+0x5b/0xc0
 [<ffffffff810f4000>] css_killed_work_fn+0x130/0x1b0
 [<ffffffff8107cdbc>] process_one_work+0x26c/0x550
 [<ffffffff8107eefe>] worker_thread+0x12e/0x3b0
 [<ffffffff81085f96>] kthread+0xe6/0xf0
 [<ffffffff81570bac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
---[ end trace 2d1577ec10cf80d0 ]---

It's because allocating/removing cgroup ID is not properly synchronized.

The bug was introduced when we converted cgroup_ida to cgroup_idr.
While synchronization is already done inside ida_simple_{get,remove}(),
users are responsible for concurrent calls to idr_{alloc,remove}().

tj: Refreshed on top of b58c89986a77 ("cgroup: fix error return from
cgroup_create()").

Fixes: 4e96ee8e981b ("cgroup: convert cgroup_ida to cgroup_idr")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.12+
Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c