Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-3.11 1/3] cgroup: fix RCU accesses to task->cgroups

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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 03:51:17PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> task->cgroups is a RCU pointer pointing to struct css_set.  A task
> switches to a different css_set on cgroup migration but a css_set
> doesn't change once created and its pointers to cgroup_subsys_states
> aren't RCU protected.
> 
> task_subsys_state[_check]() is the macro to acquire css given a task
> and subsys_id pair.  It RCU-dereferences task->cgroups->subsys[] not
> task->cgroups, so the RCU pointer task->cgroups ends up being
> dereferenced without read_barrier_depends() after it.  It's broken.
> 
> Fix it by introducing task_css_set[_check]() which does
> RCU-dereference on task->cgroups.  task_subsys_state[_check]() is
> reimplemented to directly dereference ->subsys[] of the css_set
> returned from task_css_set[_check]().
> 
> This removes some of sparse RCU warnings in cgroup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Applied 1-3 to cgroup/for-3.11.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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