linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print

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Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:20:04 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"containers@...ts.osdl.org" <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task()

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:30 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:
> 
>   $ cat /proc/sched_debug
> 
> ...
> kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
> ...
> 
> Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either
> rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held.

Well, that's not strictly true, but yes in this case it appears to be a
genuine race, since only tasklist_lock is held and that doesn't protect
us from the task changing groups (and thus the current group from going
away on us).

You can also pin a cgroup by holding whatever locks are held in the
->attach method. But the RCU annotation doesn't know (nor reasonably can
know about that).

> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched_debug.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c
> index 9cf1baf..87a330a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_debug.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c
> @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ print_task(struct seq_file *m, struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
>  	{
>  		char path[64];
>  
> +		rcu_read_lock();
>  		cgroup_path(task_group(p)->css.cgroup, path, sizeof(path));
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		SEQ_printf(m, " %s", path);
>  	}
>  #endif



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