commit 96b777452d8881480fd5be50112f791c17db4b6b upstream.
Commit:
2f5177f0fd ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
.. moved sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc().
It exposes half-baked task group into global lists before initializing
generic cgroup stuff.
LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing
similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: kernfs_path_from_node_locked+0x260/0x320
CPU: 1 PID: 30346 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-test #4
Call Trace:
? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
kernfs_path_from_node+0x3e/0x60
print_rt_rq+0x44/0x2b0
print_rt_stats+0x7a/0xd0
print_cpu+0x2fc/0xe80
? __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
sched_debug_show+0x17/0x30
seq_read+0xf2/0x3b0
proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
__vfs_read+0x28/0x130
? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
vfs_read+0xa5/0x170
SyS_read+0x46/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
Here the task group is already linked into the global RCU-protected 'task_groups'
list, but the css->cgroup pointer is still NULL.
This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online().
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 2f5177f0fd ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148655324740.424917.5302984537258726349.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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