Re: [PATCH 3.10] cgroup: break infinite loop in __css_tryget()

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:45PM +0300, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Hi, Tejun!
> 
> 02.12.2014, 19:56, "Tejun Heo" <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello, Roman.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:47:54PM +0300, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >>  If cgroup_destroy_locked() sets the css refcount to a negative value,
> >>  we get an infinite loop in __css_tryget().
> >>
> >>  In this case css_refcnt() returns modified (non-negative value), so
> >>  both (t == v) and (t < 0) conditions are always false.
> >
> > I don't follow.  The count is biased and modified by unbiasing iff the
> > value is negative.  Here, @v is the unbiased value and @t is the
> > verbatim value.  If @v is different from @t due to unbiasing, @t must
> > be negative satisfying the second condition and returning NULL, no?
> 
> Yep. I missed that we compare t with 0 (not v).

Hmm... what's up with the rcu stall message then?

-- 
tejun
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