On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 16:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I tried this patch, but it causes a boot crash:
The below should fix it.
sched: fix autogroup reference leak and cpu_cgroup_exit() explosion
In the event of a fork failure, the new cpu_cgroup_exit() method tries to
move an unhashed task. Since PF_EXITING isn't set in that case, autogroup
will dig aground in a freed signal_struct. Neither cgroups nor autogroup
has anything it needs to do with this shade, so don't go there.
This also uncovered a struct autogroup reference leak. copy_process() was
simply freeing vs putting the signal_struct, stranding a reference.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.37.git/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.37.git.orig/kernel/fork.c
+++ linux-2.6.37.git/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_mm:
}
bad_fork_cleanup_signal:
if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD))
- free_signal_struct(p->signal);
+ put_signal_struct(p->signal);
bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:
__cleanup_sighand(p->sighand);
bad_fork_cleanup_fs:
Index: linux-2.6.37.git/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.37.git.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6.37.git/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9193,6 +9193,16 @@ cpu_cgroup_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *
static void
cpu_cgroup_exit(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct task_struct *task)
{
+ /*
+ * cgroup_exit() is called in the copy_process failure path.
+ * The task isn't hashed, and we don't want to make autogroup
+ * dig into a freed signal_struct, so just go away.
+ *
+ * XXX: why are cgroup methods diddling unattached tasks?
+ */
+ if (!(task->flags & PF_EXITING))
+ return;
+
sched_move_task(task);
}
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