From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 18fa84a2db0e15b02baa5d94bdb5bd509175d2f6 upstream.
A PF_EXITING task can stay associated with an offline css. If such
task calls task_get_css(), it can get stuck indefinitely. This can be
triggered by BSD process accounting which writes to a file with
PF_EXITING set when racing against memcg disable as in the backtrace
at the end.
After this change, task_get_css() may return a css which was already
offline when the function was called. None of the existing users are
affected by this change.
INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
...
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack+0x46/0x68
nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold.2+0x13/0x57
nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xba/0xca
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x9e/0xce
rcu_check_callbacks.cold.74+0x2af/0x433
update_process_times+0x28/0x60
tick_sched_timer+0x34/0x70
__hrtimer_run_queues+0xee/0x250
hrtimer_interrupt+0xf4/0x210
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x56/0x110
apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
</IRQ>
RIP: 0010:balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x28f/0x3d0
...
btrfs_file_write_iter+0x31b/0x563
__vfs_write+0xfa/0x140
__kernel_write+0x4f/0x100
do_acct_process+0x495/0x580
acct_process+0xb9/0xdb
do_exit+0x748/0xa00
do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0
get_signal+0x254/0x560
do_signal+0x23/0x5c0
exit_to_usermode_loop+0x5d/0xa0
prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x53/0x80
retint_user+0x8/0x8
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.2+
Fixes: ec438699a9ae ("cgroup, block: implement task_get_css() and use it in bio_associate_current()")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/cgroup.h | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state
*
* Find the css for the (@task, @subsys_id) combination, increment a
* reference on and return it. This function is guaranteed to return a
- * valid css.
+ * valid css. The returned css may already have been offlined.
*/
static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state *
task_get_css(struct task_struct *task, int subsys_id)
@@ -495,7 +495,13 @@ task_get_css(struct task_struct *task, i
rcu_read_lock();
while (true) {
css = task_css(task, subsys_id);
- if (likely(css_tryget_online(css)))
+ /*
+ * Can't use css_tryget_online() here. A task which has
+ * PF_EXITING set may stay associated with an offline css.
+ * If such task calls this function, css_tryget_online()
+ * will keep failing.
+ */
+ if (likely(css_tryget(css)))
break;
cpu_relax();
}
