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| author | Paul Menage | 2008-12-15 13:54:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2008-12-15 16:27:07 -0800 |
| commit | 307257cf475aac25db30b669987f13d90c934e3a (patch) | |
| tree | 393a2c87fd1834aed3e686b65ba5479bae871b0d /kernel | |
| parent | 38aefbc585c5d86df101e7644bff2c47112783d4 (diff) | |
cgroups: fix a race between rmdir and remount
When a cgroup is removed, it's unlinked from its parent's children list,
but not actually freed until the last dentry on it is released (at which
point cgrp->root->number_of_cgroups is decremented).
Currently rebind_subsystems checks for the top cgroup's child list being
empty in order to rebind subsystems into or out of a hierarchy - this can
result in the set of subsystems bound to a hierarchy being
removed-but-not-freed cgroup.
The simplest fix for this is to forbid remounts that change the set of
subsystems on a hierarchy that has removed-but-not-freed cgroups. This
bug can be reproduced via:
mkdir /mnt/cg
mount -t cgroup -o ns,freezer cgroup /mnt/cg
mkdir /mnt/cg/foo
sleep 1h < /mnt/cg/foo &
rmdir /mnt/cg/foo
mount -t cgroup -o remount,ns,devices,freezer cgroup /mnt/cg
kill $!
Though the above will cause oops in -mm only but not mainline, but the bug
can cause memory leak in mainline (and even oops)
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index fe00b3b983a8..8185a0f09594 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static int rebind_subsystems(struct cgroupfs_root *root, * any child cgroups exist. This is theoretically supportable * but involves complex error handling, so it's being left until * later */ - if (!list_empty(&cgrp->children)) + if (root->number_of_cgroups > 1) return -EBUSY; /* Process each subsystem */ |