On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:41:41PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > Commit 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init") moved > sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc(). It exposes half-baked > task group into global lists before initializing generic cgroup stuff. > > LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing > similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops: > So nobody's run LTP against the kernel for almost a year? > > Here task group already linked into global RCU-protected list task_groups > but pointer css->cgroup is still NULL. > > This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online(). Maybe put a comment with it that explains why this is needed? Something along the lines of this perhaps? /* * Don't expose the cgroup until initialization of it is complete in the * cgroup core. Otherwise things like cgroup_path() will return NULL * pointers and the like. */ > +static int cpu_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) > +{ > + struct task_group *tg = css_tg(css); > + struct task_group *parent = css_tg(css->parent); > + > + if (parent) > + sched_online_group(tg, parent); > + return 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