linux-kernel - [PATCH] cgroup: Fix root_count when mount fails due to busy subsystem

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:48:41 -0800
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, serue@...ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix root_count when mount fails due to busy subsystem

cgroup: Fix root_count when mount fails due to busy subsystem

root_count was being incremented in cgroup_get_sb() after all error
checking was complete, but decremented in cgroup_kill_sb(), which can
be called on a superblock that we gave up on due to an error.  This
patch changes cgroup_kill_sb() to only decrement root_count if the
root was previously linked into the list of roots.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>

---

I was actually surprised to find that list_del() doesn't crash when
run on an unattached list_head structure.

 kernel/cgroup.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index adcd0bb..9ce27e8 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1115,8 +1115,10 @@ static void cgroup_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb) {
 	}
 	write_unlock(&css_set_lock);
 
-	list_del(&root->root_list);
-	root_count--;
+	if (!list_empty(&root->root_list)) {
+		list_del(&root->root_list);
+		root_count--;
+	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 

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