Re: [PATCH RESEND] cgroups: fix incorrect using rcu_dereference()in cgroup_subsys_state()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 16:24:08 EST


On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:18:06PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:05:28 +0800
> (Original) Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix wrong rcu_dereference()
>
> It is tsk->cgroups which is protected by RCU, not ->subsys[subsys_id].
>
> laijs: updated it(the surrounding code have been changed since these two years).

This looks plausible to me, assuming that the cgroups guys are OK with
it.

One requested change: could you please delete the rcu_read_lock_held()?
This is now implied by rcu_dereference_check(). With that:

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> index ed4ba11..a798814 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> @@ -535,10 +535,11 @@ static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state *cgroup_subsys_state(
> * cgroup_subsys::attach() methods.
> */
> #define task_subsys_state_check(task, subsys_id, __c) \
> - rcu_dereference_check(task->cgroups->subsys[subsys_id], \
> + rcu_dereference_check(task->cgroups, \
> rcu_read_lock_held() || \
> lockdep_is_held(&task->alloc_lock) || \
> - cgroup_lock_is_held() || (__c))
> + cgroup_lock_is_held() || \
> + (__c))->subsys[subsys_id]
>
> static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state *
> task_subsys_state(struct task_struct *task, int subsys_id)
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