Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix a race condition in manipulating tsk->cg_list

[Paul Menage]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  My only thought about the downside of this is that an exiting task
>  that gets stuck somewhere  between setting PF_EXITING and calling
>  cgroup_exit() won't show up in its cgroup's tasks file, since we'll
>  enable cgroup links but skip it. I guess that's not a big deal.
>

How about this as an alternative approach? We can take advantage of
the indirection in tsk->cgroups to create an additional distinguished
css_set that indicates the task has passed the point of checking
tsk->cg_list:

- create a new css_set, called exit_css_set; it has the same cgroup
pointer set as init_css_set.

- in cgroup_exit(), set current->cgroups to &exit_css_set rather than
&init_css_set

- in cgroup_enable_task_cg_list(), ignore any task where p->cgroups ==
&exit_css_set

That way we're synchronizing directly with the task_lock()-protected
section in cgroup_exit(), rather than with the setting of PF_EXITING
at the beginning of do_exit().

Paul
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