Hello,
Shyju, can you please test the following patch?
Sasha, can you please re-test your test case with this patch? I don't
think fa980ca87d "cgroup: superblock can't be released with active
dentries" did anything useful. cgroup always calls d_iput() and
d_release() in succession from the same context. It may just have
stretched the timing a bit to hide the race.
Li, this patch reverts fa980ca87d and wraps dput() in css_dput_fn()
with s_active refs. Positive dentry ref means that we have active ref
on sb, so wrapping the final dput() with extra s_active ref should
avoid premature super destruction. I think we're horridly broken for
root cgroup tho - and it has been broken for very long time. I think
it's mostly hidden because most (all?) controllers short-circuit root
cgroup. Eh, well....
Thanks.
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index b214fc2..15462a0 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -901,13 +901,10 @@ static void cgroup_diput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
/*
- * We want to drop the active superblock reference from the
- * cgroup creation after all the dentry refs are gone -
- * kill_sb gets mighty unhappy otherwise. Mark
- * dentry->d_fsdata with cgroup_diput() to tell
- * cgroup_d_release() to call deactivate_super().
+ * Drop the active superblock reference that we took when we
+ * created the cgroup
*/
- dentry->d_fsdata = cgroup_diput;
+ deactivate_super(cgrp->root->sb);
/*
* if we're getting rid of the cgroup, refcount should ensure
@@ -933,13 +930,6 @@ static int cgroup_delete(const struct dentry *d)
return 1;
}
-static void cgroup_d_release(struct dentry *dentry)
-{
- /* did cgroup_diput() tell me to deactivate super? */
- if (dentry->d_fsdata == cgroup_diput)
- deactivate_super(dentry->d_sb);
-}
-
static void remove_dir(struct dentry *d)
{
struct dentry *parent = dget(d->d_parent);
@@ -1547,7 +1537,6 @@ static int cgroup_get_rootdir(struct super_block *sb)
static const struct dentry_operations cgroup_dops = {
.d_iput = cgroup_diput,
.d_delete = cgroup_delete,
- .d_release = cgroup_d_release,
};
struct inode *inode =
@@ -3894,8 +3883,12 @@ static void css_dput_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css =
container_of(work, struct cgroup_subsys_state, dput_work);
+ struct dentry *dentry = css->cgroup->dentry;
+ struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;
- dput(css->cgroup->dentry);
+ atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
+ dput(dentry);
+ deactivate_super(sb);
}
static void init_cgroup_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
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