The patch titled cgroups: don't change release_agent when remount failed has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cgroups-dont-change-release_agent-when-remount-failed.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cgroups: don't change release_agent when remount failed From: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Remount can fail in either case: - wrong mount options is specified, or option 'noprefix' is changed. - a to-be-added subsys is already mounted/active. When using remount to change 'release_agent', for the above former failure case, remount will return errno with release_agent unchanged, but for the latter case, remount will return EBUSY with relase_agent changed, which is unexpected I think: # mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /cgrp1 # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,release_agent=agent1 yyy /cgrp2 # cat /cgrp2/release_agent agent1 # mount -t cgroup -o remount,cpuset,noprefix,release_agent=agent2 yyy /cgrp2 mount: /cgrp2 not mounted already, or bad option # cat /cgrp2/release_agent agent1 <-- ok # mount -t cgroup -o remount,cpu,cpuset,release_agent=agent2 yyy /cgrp2 mount: /cgrp2 is busy # cat /cgrp2/release_agent agent2 <-- unexpected! Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/cgroup.c~cgroups-dont-change-release_agent-when-remount-failed kernel/cgroup.c --- a/kernel/cgroup.c~cgroups-dont-change-release_agent-when-remount-failed +++ a/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -915,10 +915,11 @@ static int cgroup_remount(struct super_b } ret = rebind_subsystems(root, opts.subsys_bits); + if (ret) + goto out_unlock; /* (re)populate subsystem files */ - if (!ret) - cgroup_populate_dir(cgrp); + cgroup_populate_dir(cgrp); if (opts.release_agent) strcpy(root->release_agent_path, opts.release_agent); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch vfs-add-missing-unlock-in-sget.patch relax-ns_can_attach-checks-to-allow-attaching-to-grandchild-cgroups.patch cgroup-css-id-support.patch cgroup-fix-frequent-ebusy-at-rmdir.patch cgroups-more-documentation-for-remount-and-release_agent.patch cgroups-show-correct-file-mode.patch cgroups-show-correct-file-mode-fix.patch cgroups-dont-change-release_agent-when-remount-failed.patch memcg-use-css-id.patch memcg-hierarchical-stat.patch memcg-fix-shrinking-memory-to-return-ebusy-by-fixing-retry-algorithm.patch memcg-fix-oom-killer-under-memcg.patch memcg-fix-oom-killer-under-memcg-fix2.patch memcg-fix-oom-killer-under-memcg-fix.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix2.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix-fix.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix-fix-checkpatch-fixes.patch use-css-id-in-swap_cgroup-for-saving-memory-v4.patch cpuset-fix-possible-races-in-cpu-memory-hotplug.patch cgroups-add-data-field-to-struct-cgroup_scanner.patch cpuset-rewrite-update_tasks_nodemask.patch cpuset-avoid-changing-cpusets-mems-when-errno-returned.patch cpuset-remove-struct-cpuset_hotplug_scanner.patch cpusets-allow-cpusets-to-be-configured-built-on-non-smp-systems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html