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Commit cb8f1dd1 authored by Michal Koutný's avatar Michal Koutný Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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cgroup: Remove duplicates in cgroup v1 tasks file

commit 1ca0b605

 upstream.

One PID may appear multiple times in a preloaded pidlist.
(Possibly due to PID recycling but we have reports of the same
task_struct appearing with different PIDs, thus possibly involving
transfer of PID via de_thread().)

Because v1 seq_file iterator uses PIDs as position, it leads to
a message:
> seq_file: buggy .next function kernfs_seq_next did not update position index

Conservative and quick fix consists of removing duplicates from `tasks`
file (as opposed to removing pidlists altogether). It doesn't affect
correctness (it's sufficient to show a PID once), performance impact
would be hidden by unconditional sorting of the pidlist already in place
(asymptotically).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230823174804.23632-1-mkoutny@suse.com/
Suggested-by: default avatarFiro Yang <firo.yang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 57e7696b
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