On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:12:23PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> commit 205a872bd6f9a9a09ef035ef1e90185a8245cc58 ("cgroup: fix lockdep
> warning for event_control") solved a deadlock by introducing a new
> bug.
>
> Move cgrp->event_list to a temporary list doesn't mean you can traverse
> this list locklessly, because at the same time cgroup_event_wake() can
> be called and remove the event from the list. The result of this race
> is disastrous.
>
> We adopt the way how kvm irqfd code implements race-free event removal,
> which is now described in the comments in cgroup_event_wake().
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to cgroup/for-3.9.
Thanks.
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tejun
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