Before 2e91fa7f6d ("cgroup: keep zombies associated with their
original cgroups"), all dead tasks were associated with init_css_set.
If a zombie task is requested for migration, while migration prep
operations would still be performed on init_css_set, the actual
migration would ignore zombie tasks. As init_css_set is always valid,
this worked fine.
However, after 2e91fa7f6d, zombie tasks stay with the css_set it was
associated with at the time of death. Let's say a task T associated
with cgroup A on hierarchy H-1 and cgroup B on hiearchy H-2. After T
becomes a zombie, it would still remain associated with A and B. If A
only contains zombie tasks, it can be removed. On removal, A gets
marked offline but stays pinned until all zombies are drained. At
this point, if migration is initiated on T to a cgroup C on hierarchy
H-2, migration path would try to prepare T's css_set for migration and
trigger the following.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1576 at kernel/cgroup.c:474 cgroup_get+0x121/0x160()
CPU: 0 PID: 1576 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.4.0-work+ #289
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8127e63c>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
[<ffffffff810445e8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xb0
[<ffffffff810446d5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff810c33e1>] cgroup_get+0x121/0x160
[<ffffffff810c349b>] link_css_set+0x7b/0x90
[<ffffffff810c4fbc>] find_css_set+0x3bc/0x5e0
[<ffffffff810c5269>] cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst+0x89/0x1f0
[<ffffffff810c7547>] cgroup_attach_task+0x157/0x230
[<ffffffff810c7a17>] __cgroup_procs_write+0x2b7/0x470
[<ffffffff810c7bdc>] cgroup_tasks_write+0xc/0x10
[<ffffffff810c4790>] cgroup_file_write+0x30/0x1b0
[<ffffffff811c68fc>] kernfs_fop_write+0x13c/0x180
[<ffffffff81151673>] __vfs_write+0x23/0xe0
[<ffffffff81152494>] vfs_write+0xa4/0x1a0
[<ffffffff811532d4>] SyS_write+0x44/0xa0
[<ffffffff814af2d7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f
It doesn't make sense to prepare migration for css_sets pointing to
dead cgroups as they are guaranteed to contain only zombies which are
ignored later during migration. This patch makes cgroup destruction
path mark all affected css_sets as dead and updates the migration path
to ignore them during preparation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 2e91fa7f6d ("cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
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