[PATCH 1/3] cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_cfs_commit() race

From: Li Zefan
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 06:41:30 EST


cgroup_cfs_commit() uses dget() to keep cgroup alive after cgroup_mutex
is dropped, but dget() won't prevent cgroupfs from being umounted. When
the race happens, vfs will see some dentries with non-zero refcnt while
umount is in process.

Keep running this:
mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /cgroup
umount /cgroup

And this:
modprobe cfq-iosched
rmmod cfs-iosched

After a while, the BUG() in shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() may
be triggered:

BUG: Dentry xxx{i=0,n=blkio.yyy} still in use (1) [umount of cgroup cgroup]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 25f1054..482252a 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2788,13 +2788,17 @@ static void cgroup_cfts_commit(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
{
LIST_HEAD(pending);
struct cgroup *cgrp, *n;
+ struct super_block *sb = ss->root->sb;

/* %NULL @cfts indicates abort and don't bother if @ss isn't attached */
- if (cfts && ss->root != &rootnode) {
+ if (cfts && ss->root != &rootnode &&
+ atomic_inc_not_zero(sb->s_active)) {
list_for_each_entry(cgrp, &ss->root->allcg_list, allcg_node) {
dget(cgrp->dentry);
list_add_tail(&cgrp->cft_q_node, &pending);
}
+ } else {
+ sb = NULL;
}

mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
@@ -2817,6 +2821,9 @@ static void cgroup_cfts_commit(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
dput(cgrp->dentry);
}

+ if (sb)
+ deactivate_super(sb);
+
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_cft_mutex);
}

--
1.8.0.2
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