As previously discussed(https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/20/51), cpuset_attach() is affected with similar cpu hotplug race, as follow scenario: cpuset_attach() cpu hotplug --------------------------- ---------------------- down_write(cpuset_rwsem) guarantee_online_cpus() // (load cpus_attach) sched_cpu_deactivate set_cpu_active() // will change cpu_active_mask set_cpus_allowed_ptr(cpus_attach) __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked() // (if the intersection of cpus_attach and cpu_active_mask is empty, will return -EINVAL) up_write(cpuset_rwsem) To avoid races such as described above, protect cpuset_attach() call with cpu_hotplug_lock. Fixes: be367d099270 ("cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v2.6.32+ Reported-by: Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c index 4c7254e8f49a..97c53f3cc917 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c @@ -2289,6 +2289,7 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset) cgroup_taskset_first(tset, &css); cs = css_cs(css); + cpus_read_lock(); percpu_down_write(&cpuset_rwsem); guarantee_online_mems(cs, &cpuset_attach_nodemask_to); @@ -2342,6 +2343,7 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset) wake_up(&cpuset_attach_wq); percpu_up_write(&cpuset_rwsem); + cpus_read_unlock(); } /* The various types of files and directories in a cpuset file system */