linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroups: fix probable race with put_css_set[_taskexit] and find_css

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Message-ID: <20080910050112.GA2897@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:01:12 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroups: fix probable race with put_css_set[_taskexit]
	and find_css_set

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:18:36AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> Paul Menage wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 2) Use atomic_inc_not_zero() in find_existing_css_set(), to ensure
> > that we only return a referenced css, and remove the get_css_set()
> > call from find_css_set(). (Possibly wrapping this in a new
> > kref_get_not_zero() function)
> > 
> 
> [CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>]
> 
> There are indeed several ways fix this race by Using the
> atomic-functions directly. I prefer the second one, i makes all
> code clearly. And put_css_set[_taskexit] do not need to be changed.
> 
> I don't think adding kref_get_not_zero() API is a good idea.
> It will bring kref APIs to a little chaos, kref_get_not_zero() is
> hard to be used, for this function needs a special lock held.
> 
> But I tried:

What are you trying to solve here with this change?  I agree, it does
seem a bit "chaotic" :)

I thought we used to have something like this for kref in the past, but
I must be mistaken as it's no longer there...

thanks,

greg k-h
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