[PATCH 3.12 14/98] sched: Fix race between task_group and sched_task_group

[Jiri Slaby]

From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit eeb61e53ea19be0c4015b00b2e8b3b2185436f2b upstream.

The race may happen when somebody is changing task_group of a forking task.
Child's cgroup is the same as parent's after dup_task_struct() (there just
memory copying). Also, cfs_rq and rt_rq are the same as parent's.

But if parent changes its task_group before it's called cgroup_post_fork(),
we do not reflect this situation on child. Child's cfs_rq and rt_rq remain
the same, while child's task_group changes in cgroup_post_fork().

To fix this we introduce fork() method, which calls sched_move_task() directly.
This function changes sched_task_group on appropriate (also its logic has
no problem with freshly created tasks, so we shouldn't introduce something
special; we are able just to use it).

Possibly, this decides the Burke Libbey's problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/24/456

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414405105.19914.169.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3800316d7424..7381119ec1e9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7233,6 +7233,11 @@ static void cpu_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	sched_offline_group(tg);
 }
 
+static void cpu_cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	sched_move_task(task);
+}
+
 static int cpu_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 				 struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
@@ -7602,6 +7607,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys cpu_cgroup_subsys = {
 	.css_free	= cpu_cgroup_css_free,
 	.css_online	= cpu_cgroup_css_online,
 	.css_offline	= cpu_cgroup_css_offline,
+	.fork		= cpu_cgroup_fork,
 	.can_attach	= cpu_cgroup_can_attach,
 	.attach		= cpu_cgroup_attach,
 	.exit		= cpu_cgroup_exit,
-- 
2.8.1