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

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Message-ID: <20090123022014.GB9267@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:20:14 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix root_count when mount fails due to busy
	subsystem

Quoting Paul Menage (menage@...gle.com):
> 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>

Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>

thanks,
-serge

> 
> ---
> 
> 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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