Re: [PATCH 1/2] cgroup: Fix incorrect warning from cgroup_apply_control_disable()

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 02:43:44PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > The problem with percpu_ref_is_dying() is the fact that it becomes true
> > after percpu_ref_exit() is called in css_free_rwork_fn() which has an
> > RCU delay. If you want to catch the fact that kill_css() has been
> > called, we can check the CSS_DYING flag which is set in kill_css() by
> > commit 33c35aa481786 ("cgroup: Prevent kill_css() from being called more
> > than once"). Will that be an acceptable alternative?
> 
> Something like
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> index 881ce1470beb..851e54800ad8 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> @@ -3140,6 +3140,9 @@ static void cgroup_apply_control_disable(struct cgroup
> *cg
>                         if (!css)
>                                 continue;
> 
> +                       if (css->flags & CSS_DYING)
> +                               continue;
> +

So, I don't think this would be correct. It is assumed that there are no
dying csses when control reaches this point. The right fix is making sure
that remount path clears up dying csses before calling into this path.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun