From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit 8bb5ef79bc0f4016ecf79e8dce6096a3c63603e4 ] There are three subsystem callbacks in css shutdown path - css_offline(), css_released() and css_free(). Except for css_released(), cgroup core didn't guarantee the order of invocation. css_offline() or css_free() could be called on a parent css before its children. This behavior is unexpected and led to bugs in cpu and memory controller. The previous patch updated ordering for css_offline() which fixes the cpu controller issue. While there currently isn't a known bug caused by misordering of css_free() invocations, let's fix it too for consistency. css_free() ordering can be trivially fixed by moving putting of the parent css below css_free() invocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index d01c604..3abce1e 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4378,14 +4378,15 @@ static void css_free_work_fn(struct work_struct *work) if (ss) { /* css free path */ + struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent = css->parent; int id = css->id; - if (css->parent) - css_put(css->parent); - ss->css_free(css); cgroup_idr_remove(&ss->css_idr, id); cgroup_put(cgrp); + + if (parent) + css_put(parent); } else { /* cgroup free path */ atomic_dec(&cgrp->root->nr_cgrps); -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html