It was found that the following warning was displayed when remounting controllers from cgroup v2 to v1: [ 8042.997778] WARNING: CPU: 88 PID: 80682 at kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3130 cgroup_apply_control_disable+0x158/0x190 : [ 8043.091109] RIP: 0010:cgroup_apply_control_disable+0x158/0x190 [ 8043.096946] Code: ff f6 45 54 01 74 39 48 8d 7d 10 48 c7 c6 e0 46 5a a4 e8 7b 67 33 00 e9 41 ff ff ff 49 8b 84 24 e8 01 00 00 0f b7 40 08 eb 95 <0f> 0b e9 5f ff ff ff 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 [ 8043.115692] RSP: 0018:ffffba8a47c23d28 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 8043.120916] RAX: 0000000000000036 RBX: ffffffffa624ce40 RCX: 000000000000181a [ 8043.128047] RDX: ffffffffa63c43e0 RSI: ffffffffa63c43e0 RDI: ffff9d7284ee1000 [ 8043.135180] RBP: ffff9d72874c5800 R08: ffffffffa624b090 R09: 0000000000000004 [ 8043.142314] R10: ffffffffa624b080 R11: 0000000000002000 R12: ffff9d7284ee1000 [ 8043.149447] R13: ffff9d7284ee1000 R14: ffffffffa624ce70 R15: ffffffffa6269e20 [ 8043.156576] FS: 00007f7747cff740(0000) GS:ffff9d7a5fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 8043.164663] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 8043.170409] CR2: 00007f7747e96680 CR3: 0000000887d60001 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [ 8043.177539] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 8043.184673] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 8043.191804] PKRU: 55555554 [ 8043.194517] Call Trace: [ 8043.196970] rebind_subsystems+0x18c/0x470 [ 8043.201070] cgroup_setup_root+0x16c/0x2f0 [ 8043.205177] cgroup1_root_to_use+0x204/0x2a0 [ 8043.209456] cgroup1_get_tree+0x3e/0x120 [ 8043.213384] vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0 [ 8043.216883] do_new_mount+0x176/0x2d0 [ 8043.220550] __x64_sys_mount+0x103/0x140 [ 8043.224474] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 8043.228063] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae It was caused by the "WARN_ON_ONCE(percpu_ref_is_dying(&css->refcnt))" check. It was because the css had not been completely removed from a previous call to css_kill() by cgroup_apply_control_disable() and so the warning was triggered when cgroup_apply_control_disable() was called again soon afterward. Eliminating this incorrect warning by using percpu_ref_is_dying() as escape for further action instead. Fixes: 945ba19968888 ("cgroup: combine cgroup_mutex locking and offline css draining") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 881ce1470beb..e31bca9fcd46 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -3140,7 +3140,16 @@ static void cgroup_apply_control_disable(struct cgroup *cgrp) if (!css) continue; - WARN_ON_ONCE(percpu_ref_is_dying(&css->refcnt)); + /* + * A kill_css() might have been called previously, but + * the css may still linger for a while before being + * removed. Skip it in this case. + */ + if (percpu_ref_is_dying(&css->refcnt)) { + WARN_ON_ONCE(css->parent && + cgroup_ss_mask(dsct) & (1 << ss->id)); + continue; + } if (css->parent && !(cgroup_ss_mask(dsct) & (1 << ss->id))) { -- 2.18.1