Re: [PATCH 4/4] cgroup: move the one-off opts sanity check incgroup_root_from_opts() to parse_cgroupfs_options()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Jan 29 2014 - 08:20:27 EST


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:02:44PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2014/1/28 23:32, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > cgroup_root_from_opts() checks whether (!opts->subsys_mask &&
> > !opts->none) and returns NULL if so. After that, if allocation fails,
> > returns ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). The caller, cgroup_mount(), doesn't treat
> > NULL as an error but set opts.new_root to NULL; however, later on,
> > cgroup_set_super() fails with -EINVAL if new_root is NULL.
>
> This patch changes mount semantics.
>
> If cgroup_root_from_opts() returns NULL, it means we should be looking
> for existing superblock only.
>
> This will fail:
>
> # mount -t cgroup -o name=abc xxx /mnt
>
> But this is ok:
>
> # mount -t cgroup -o none,name=abc xxx /mnt
> # mkdir /mnt/sub
> # umount /mnt
> # mount -t cgroup -o name=abc xxx /mnt <-- this won't work with your patch

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
urgghhghghghhh.............

Alright, dropping this patch and will update later patches to maintain
the behavior.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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