linux-kernel - [PATCH v2.6.34-rc5 10/12] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print

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Message-Id: <1272051810-11249-10-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:43:28 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2.6.34-rc5 10/12] sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task()

From: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>

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.

The rcu_dereference_check() does include cgroup_lock_is_held(), so we
know that this lock is not held.  Therefore, in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel,
to say nothing of a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, the original code could
have ended up copying a string out of the freelist.

This patch inserts RCU read-side primitives needed to prevent this
scenario.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.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 9b49db1..19be00b 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
-- 
1.7.0

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