Re: [PATCH] memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()

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On Thu, 26 May 2016 16:30:18 -0400 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> memcg_offline_kmem() may be called from memcg_free_kmem() after a css
> init failure.  memcg_free_kmem() is a ->css_free callback which is
> called without cgroup_mutex and memcg_offline_kmem() ends up using
> css_for_each_descendant_pre() without any locking.  Fix it by adding
> rcu read locking around it.
> 
>  mkdir: cannot create directory ___65530___: No space left on device
>  [  527.241361] ===============================
>  [  527.241845] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
>  [  527.242367] 4.6.0-work+ #321 Not tainted
>  [  527.242730] -------------------------------
>  [  527.243220] kernel/cgroup.c:4008 cgroup_mutex or RCU read lock required!

cc:stable?

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