The patch titled cgroups: fix to return errno in a failure path has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was cgroups-fix-to-return-errno-in-a-failure-path.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cgroups: fix to return errno in a failure path From: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In cgroup_create(), if alloc_css_id() returns failure, the errno is not propagated to userspace, so mkdir will fail silently. To trigger this bug, we mount blkio (or memory subsystem), and create more then 65534 cgroups. (The number of cgroups is limited to 65535 if a subsystem has use_id == 1) # mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /mnt # for ((i = 0; i < 65534; i++)); do mkdir /mnt/$i; done # mkdir /mnt/65534 (should return ENOSPC) # Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/cgroup.c~cgroups-fix-to-return-errno-in-a-failure-path kernel/cgroup.c --- a/kernel/cgroup.c~cgroups-fix-to-return-errno-in-a-failure-path +++ a/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2936,14 +2936,17 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup for_each_subsys(root, ss) { struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = ss->create(ss, cgrp); + if (IS_ERR(css)) { err = PTR_ERR(css); goto err_destroy; } init_cgroup_css(css, ss, cgrp); - if (ss->use_id) - if (alloc_css_id(ss, parent, cgrp)) + if (ss->use_id) { + err = alloc_css_id(ss, parent, cgrp); + if (err) goto err_destroy; + } /* At error, ->destroy() callback has to free assigned ID. */ } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch lib-stringc-simplify-strnstr.patch cgroup-introduce-cancel_attach.patch cgroup-introduce-coalesce-css_get-and-css_put.patch cgroups-revamp-subsys-array.patch cgroups-subsystem-module-loading-interface.patch cgroups-subsystem-module-loading-interface-fix.patch cgroups-subsystem-module-unloading.patch cgroups-net_cls-as-module.patch cgroups-blkio-subsystem-as-module.patch cgroups-clean-up-cgroup_pidlist_find-a-bit.patch memcg-add-interface-to-move-charge-at-task-migration.patch memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-page.patch memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-page-cleanup.patch memcg-improve-performance-in-moving-charge.patch memcg-avoid-oom-during-moving-charge.patch memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-swap.patch memcg-move-charges-of-anonymous-swap-fix.patch memcg-improve-performance-in-moving-swap-charge.patch memcg-improve-performance-in-moving-swap-charge-fix.patch cgroup-implement-eventfd-based-generic-api-for-notifications.patch cgroup-implement-eventfd-based-generic-api-for-notifications-kconfig-fix.patch cgroup-implement-eventfd-based-generic-api-for-notifications-fixes.patch memcg-extract-mem_group_usage-from-mem_cgroup_read.patch memcg-rework-usage-of-stats-by-soft-limit.patch memcg-implement-memory-thresholds.patch memcg-implement-memory-thresholds-checkpatch-fixes.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