From 3a32bd72d77058d768dbb38183ad517f720dd1bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:50:59 +0800 Subject: cgroup: fix a race between cgroup_mount() and cgroup_kill_sb() We've converted cgroup to kernfs so cgroup won't be intertwined with vfs objects and locking, but there are dark areas. Run two instances of this script concurrently: for ((; ;)) { mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup umount /cgroup } After a while, I saw two mount processes were stuck at retrying, because they were waiting for a subsystem to become free, but the root associated with this subsystem never got freed. This can happen, if thread A is in the process of killing superblock but hasn't called percpu_ref_kill(), and at this time thread B is mounting the same cgroup root and finds the root in the root list and performs percpu_ref_try_get(). To fix this, we try to increase both the refcnt of the superblock and the percpu refcnt of cgroup root. v2: - we should try to get both the superblock refcnt and cgroup_root refcnt, because cgroup_root may have no superblock assosiated with it. - adjust/add comments. tj: Updated comments. Renamed @sb to @pinned_sb. Cc: # 3.15 Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/cgroup.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 64068667be84..70776aec2562 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, const char *unused_dev_name, void *data) { + struct super_block *pinned_sb = NULL; struct cgroup_subsys *ss; struct cgroup_root *root; struct cgroup_sb_opts opts; @@ -1740,15 +1741,23 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, } /* - * A root's lifetime is governed by its root cgroup. - * tryget_live failure indicate that the root is being - * destroyed. Wait for destruction to complete so that the - * subsystems are free. We can use wait_queue for the wait - * but this path is super cold. Let's just sleep for a bit - * and retry. + * We want to reuse @root whose lifetime is governed by its + * ->cgrp. Let's check whether @root is alive and keep it + * that way. As cgroup_kill_sb() can happen anytime, we + * want to block it by pinning the sb so that @root doesn't + * get killed before mount is complete. + * + * With the sb pinned, tryget_live can reliably indicate + * whether @root can be reused. If it's being killed, + * drain it. We can use wait_queue for the wait but this + * path is super cold. Let's just sleep a bit and retry. */ - if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) { + pinned_sb = kernfs_pin_sb(root->kf_root, NULL); + if (IS_ERR(pinned_sb) || + !percpu_ref_tryget_live(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) { mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pinned_sb)) + deactivate_super(pinned_sb); msleep(10); ret = restart_syscall(); goto out_free; @@ -1793,6 +1802,16 @@ out_free: CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC, &new_sb); if (IS_ERR(dentry) || !new_sb) cgroup_put(&root->cgrp); + + /* + * If @pinned_sb, we're reusing an existing root and holding an + * extra ref on its sb. Mount is complete. Put the extra ref. + */ + if (pinned_sb) { + WARN_ON(new_sb); + deactivate_super(pinned_sb); + } + return dentry; } -- cgit