This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cgroup: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage warning to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cgroup-fix-suspicious-rcu_dereference_check-usage-wa.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a7a1ff80a7a0f1b3823b3862fa05c0eb79cf6290 Author: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Sep 29 16:14:18 2023 +0300 cgroup: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage warning commit f2aa197e4794bf4c2c0c9570684f86e6fa103e8b upstream. task_css_set_check() will use rcu_dereference_check() to check for rcu_read_lock_held() on the read-side, which is not true after commit dc6e0818bc9a ("sched/cpuacct: Optimize away RCU read lock"). This commit drop explicit rcu_read_lock(), change to RCU-sched read-side critical section. So fix the RCU warning by adding check for rcu_read_lock_sched_held(). Fixes: dc6e0818bc9a ("sched/cpuacct: Optimize away RCU read lock") Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+16e3f2c77e7c5a0113f9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220305034103.57123-1-zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 7653f54189502..c9c430712d471 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ extern struct mutex cgroup_mutex; extern spinlock_t css_set_lock; #define task_css_set_check(task, __c) \ rcu_dereference_check((task)->cgroups, \ + rcu_read_lock_sched_held() || \ lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex) || \ lockdep_is_held(&css_set_lock) || \ ((task)->flags & PF_EXITING) || (__c))