[Devel] [PATCH] cpuset: rcu_read_lock() to protect task_cs()

Lai Jiangshan laijs at cn.fujitsu.com
Fri Nov 21 00:49:37 PST 2008


task_cs() calls cgroup_subsys_state().

we must use rcu_read_lock() to protect cgroup_subsys_state().

it's correct that top_cpuset is never freed, but cgroup_subsys_state()
accesses css_set, this css_set maybe freed when task_cs() called.

we use use rcu_read_lock() to protect it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 3e00526..e0e087e 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -363,14 +363,9 @@ void cpuset_update_task_memory_state(void)
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	struct cpuset *cs;
 
-	if (task_cs(tsk) == &top_cpuset) {
-		/* Don't need rcu for top_cpuset.  It's never freed. */
-		my_cpusets_mem_gen = top_cpuset.mems_generation;
-	} else {
-		rcu_read_lock();
-		my_cpusets_mem_gen = task_cs(tsk)->mems_generation;
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-	}
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	my_cpusets_mem_gen = task_cs(tsk)->mems_generation;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (my_cpusets_mem_gen != tsk->cpuset_mems_generation) {
 		mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);

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