cgroup_root_from_opts() checks whether (!opts->subsys_mask && !opts->none) and returns NULL if so. After that, if allocation fails, returns ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). The caller, cgroup_mount(), doesn't treat NULL as an error but set opts.new_root to NULL; however, later on, cgroup_set_super() fails with -EINVAL if new_root is NULL. This is one bizarre error handling sequence especially when all other opts sanity checks including the very close (!opts->subsys_mask && !opts->name) check are done in parse_cgroupfs_options(). Let's move the one-off check in cgroup_root_from_opts() to parse_cgroupfs_options() where it can be combined with the (!opts->subsys_mask && !opts->name) check. cgroup_root_from_opts() is updated to return NULL on memory allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 19 ++++++------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index b0e030f..5c8fe40 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1265,10 +1265,10 @@ static int parse_cgroupfs_options(char *data, struct cgroup_sb_opts *opts) return -EINVAL; /* - * We either have to specify by name or by subsystems. (So all - * empty hierarchies must have a name). + * We either have to specify by name or by subsystems. All empty + * hierarchies must have a name and also "none" option specified. */ - if (!opts->subsys_mask && !opts->name) + if (!opts->subsys_mask && (!opts->name || !opts->none)) return -EINVAL; return 0; @@ -1417,12 +1417,9 @@ static struct cgroupfs_root *cgroup_root_from_opts(struct cgroup_sb_opts *opts) { struct cgroupfs_root *root; - if (!opts->subsys_mask && !opts->none) - return NULL; - root = kzalloc(sizeof(*root), GFP_KERNEL); if (!root) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return NULL; init_cgroup_root(root); @@ -1461,10 +1458,6 @@ static int cgroup_set_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data) int ret; struct cgroup_sb_opts *opts = data; - /* If we don't have a new root, we can't set up a new sb */ - if (!opts->new_root) - return -EINVAL; - BUG_ON(!opts->subsys_mask && !opts->none); ret = set_anon_super(sb, NULL); @@ -1532,8 +1525,8 @@ static struct dentry *cgroup_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, * reusing an existing hierarchy. */ new_root = cgroup_root_from_opts(&opts); - if (IS_ERR(new_root)) { - ret = PTR_ERR(new_root); + if (!new_root) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto out_err; } opts.new_root = new_root; -- 1.8.5.3 _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers