linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/urgent 05/10] cgroup: Fix an RCU warning in alloc_css

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Date:	Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:26:09 -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 tip/core/urgent 05/10] cgroup: Fix an RCU warning in alloc_css_id()

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

With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:

  # mount -t cgroup -o memory xxx /mnt
  # mkdir /mnt/0

...
kernel/cgroup.c:4442 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
...

This is a false-positive. It's safe to directly access parent_css->id.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 4ca928d..3a53c77 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4561,13 +4561,13 @@ static int alloc_css_id(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *parent,
 {
 	int subsys_id, i, depth = 0;
 	struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css, *child_css;
-	struct css_id *child_id, *parent_id = NULL;
+	struct css_id *child_id, *parent_id;
 
 	subsys_id = ss->subsys_id;
 	parent_css = parent->subsys[subsys_id];
 	child_css = child->subsys[subsys_id];
-	depth = css_depth(parent_css) + 1;
 	parent_id = parent_css->id;
+	depth = parent_id->depth;
 
 	child_id = get_new_cssid(ss, depth);
 	if (IS_ERR(child_id))
-- 
1.7.0

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