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Commit 3bc0bb36 authored by Michal Koutný's avatar Michal Koutný Committed by Tejun Heo
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cgroup: Prevent double killing of css when enabling threaded cgroup



The test_cgcore_no_internal_process_constraint_on_threads selftest when
running with subsystem controlling noise triggers two warnings:

> [  597.443115] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 28167 at kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3131 cgroup_apply_control_enable+0xe0/0x3f0
> [  597.443413] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 28167 at kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3177 cgroup_apply_control_disable+0xa6/0x160

Both stem from a call to cgroup_type_write. The first warning was also
triggered by syzkaller.

When we're switching cgroup to threaded mode shortly after a subsystem
was disabled on it, we can see the respective subsystem css dying there.

The warning in cgroup_apply_control_enable is harmless in this case
since we're not adding new subsys anyway.
The warning in cgroup_apply_control_disable indicates an attempt to kill
css of recently disabled subsystem repeatedly.

The commit prevents these situations by making cgroup_type_write wait
for all dying csses to go away before re-applying subtree controls.
When at it, the locations of WARN_ON_ONCE calls are moved so that
warning is triggered only when we are about to misuse the dying css.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+5493b2a54d31d6aea629@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent 75ea91cd
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