cgroup: fix a race condition in manipulating tsk->cg_list
When I ran a test program to fork mass processes and at the same time 'cat /cgroup/tasks', I got the following oops: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:72! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Pid: 4178, comm: a.out Not tainted (2.6.25-rc9 #72) ... Call Trace: [<c044a5f9>] ? cgroup_exit+0x55/0x94 [<c0427acf>] ? do_exit+0x217/0x5ba [<c0427ed7>] ? do_group_exit+0.65/0x7c [<c0427efd>] ? sys_exit_group+0xf/0x11 [<c0404842>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<c05e0000>] ? init_cyrix+0x2fa/0x479 ... EIP: [<c04df671>] list_del+0x35/0x53 SS:ESP 0068:ebc7df4 ---[ end trace caffb7332252612b ]--- Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! After digging into the code and debugging, I finlly found out a race situation: do_exit() ->cgroup_exit() ->if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) list_del(&tsk->cg_list); cgroup_iter_start() ->cgroup_enable_task_cg_list() ->list_add(&tsk->cg_list, ..); In this case the list won't be deleted though the process has exited. We got two bug reports in the past, which seem to be the same bug as this one: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/332 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/224 Actually sometimes I got oops on list_del, sometimes oops on list_add. And I can change my test program a bit to trigger other oops. The patch has been tested both on x86_32 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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