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cgroup: fix a race between cgroup_mount() and cgroup_kill_sb() 

We've converted cgroup to kernfs so cgroup won't be intertwined with
vfs objects and locking, but there are dark areas.

Run two instances of this script concurrently:

    for ((; ;))
    {
    	mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup
    	umount /cgroup
    }

After a while, I saw two mount processes were stuck at retrying, because
they were waiting for a subsystem to become free, but the root associated
with this subsystem never got freed.

This can happen, if thread A is in the process of killing superblock but
hasn't called percpu_ref_kill(), and at this time thread B is mounting
the same cgroup root and finds the root in the root list and performs
percpu_ref_try_get().

To fix this, we try to increase both the refcnt of the superblock and the
percpu refcnt of cgroup root.

v2:
- we should try to get both the superblock refcnt and cgroup_root refcnt,
  because cgroup_root may have no superblock assosiated with it.
- adjust/add comments.

tj: Updated comments.  Renamed @sb to @pinned_sb.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Li Zefan 2014-06-30 11:50:59 +08:00 committed by Tejun Heo
parent 4e26445faa
commit 3a32bd72d7
1 changed files with 26 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
int flags, const char *unused_dev_name,
void *data)
{
struct super_block *pinned_sb = NULL;
struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
struct cgroup_root *root;
struct cgroup_sb_opts opts;
@ -1740,15 +1741,23 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
}
/*
* A root's lifetime is governed by its root cgroup.
* tryget_live failure indicate that the root is being
* destroyed. Wait for destruction to complete so that the
* subsystems are free. We can use wait_queue for the wait
* but this path is super cold. Let's just sleep for a bit
* and retry.
* We want to reuse @root whose lifetime is governed by its
* ->cgrp. Let's check whether @root is alive and keep it
* that way. As cgroup_kill_sb() can happen anytime, we
* want to block it by pinning the sb so that @root doesn't
* get killed before mount is complete.
*
* With the sb pinned, tryget_live can reliably indicate
* whether @root can be reused. If it's being killed,
* drain it. We can use wait_queue for the wait but this
* path is super cold. Let's just sleep a bit and retry.
*/
if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
pinned_sb = kernfs_pin_sb(root->kf_root, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(pinned_sb) ||
!percpu_ref_tryget_live(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pinned_sb))
deactivate_super(pinned_sb);
msleep(10);
ret = restart_syscall();
goto out_free;
@ -1793,6 +1802,16 @@ out_free:
CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC, &new_sb);
if (IS_ERR(dentry) || !new_sb)
cgroup_put(&root->cgrp);
/*
* If @pinned_sb, we're reusing an existing root and holding an
* extra ref on its sb. Mount is complete. Put the extra ref.
*/
if (pinned_sb) {
WARN_ON(new_sb);
deactivate_super(pinned_sb);
}
return dentry;
}