[REGRESSION] cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in somecases

From: Daisuke Nishimura
Date: Thu Oct 04 2012 - 03:48:43 EST


notify_on_release must be triggered when the last process in a cgroup is
move to another. But if the first(and only) process in a cgroup is moved to
another, notify_on_release is not triggered.

# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/SRC
# mkdir /cgroup/cpu/DST
#
# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/notify_on_release
# echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/notify_on_release
#
# sleep 300 &
[1] 8629
#
# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/tasks
# echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/tasks
-> notify_on_release for /SRC must be triggered at this point,
but it isn't.

This is because put_css_set() is called before setting CGRP_RELEASABLE
in cgroup_task_migrate(), and is a regression introduce by the
commit:74a1166d(cgroups: make procs file writable), which was merged
into v3.0.

Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.0.x and later
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch is based on v3.6.

kernel/cgroup.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 7981850..7d01182 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1923,9 +1923,8 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
* trading it for newcg is protected by cgroup_mutex, we're safe to drop
* it here; it will be freed under RCU.
*/
- put_css_set(oldcg);
-
set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &oldcgrp->flags);
+ put_css_set(oldcg);
}

/**
--
1.7.1

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