linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] sched/autogroup: a zombie thread must not use autogroup->tg

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:46:12 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:     hartsjc@...hat.com, vbendel@...hat.com, vlovejoy@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] sched/autogroup: a zombie thread must not use
 autogroup->tg

Exactly because for_each_thread() in autogroup_move_group() can't see it
and update its ->sched_task_group before _put() and possibly free().

So the exiting task needs another sched_move_task() before exit_notify()
and we need to re-introduce the PF_EXITING (or similar) check removed by
the previous change for another reason.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 include/linux/sched.h     |  2 ++
 kernel/exit.c             |  1 +
 kernel/sched/auto_group.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 348f51b..e9c009d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2567,6 +2567,7 @@ extern void sched_autogroup_create_attach(struct task_struct *p);
 extern void sched_autogroup_detach(struct task_struct *p);
 extern void sched_autogroup_fork(struct signal_struct *sig);
 extern void sched_autogroup_exit(struct signal_struct *sig);
+extern void sched_autogroup_exit_task(struct task_struct *p);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 extern void proc_sched_autogroup_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m);
 extern int proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(struct task_struct *p, int nice);
@@ -2576,6 +2577,7 @@ static inline void sched_autogroup_create_attach(struct task_struct *p) { }
 static inline void sched_autogroup_detach(struct task_struct *p) { }
 static inline void sched_autogroup_fork(struct signal_struct *sig) { }
 static inline void sched_autogroup_exit(struct signal_struct *sig) { }
+static inline void sched_autogroup_exit_task(struct task_struct *p) { }
 #endif
 
 extern int yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f3dd46d..76e263e 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -837,6 +837,7 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
 	 */
 	perf_event_exit_task(tsk);
 
+	sched_autogroup_exit_task(tsk);
 	cgroup_exit(tsk);
 
 	/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
index ad2b19a..f1c8fd5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
@@ -115,10 +115,26 @@ bool task_wants_autogroup(struct task_struct *p, struct task_group *tg)
 	 * If we race with autogroup_move_group() the caller can use the old
 	 * value of signal->autogroup but in this case sched_move_task() will
 	 * be called again before autogroup_kref_put().
+	 *
+	 * However, there is no way sched_autogroup_exit_task() could tell us
+	 * to avoid autogroup->tg, so we abuse PF_EXITING flag for this case.
 	 */
+	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING)
+		return false;
+
 	return true;
 }
 
+void sched_autogroup_exit_task(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	/*
+	 * We are going to call exit_notify() and autogroup_move_group() can't
+	 * see this thread after that: we can no longer use signal->autogroup.
+	 * See the PF_EXITING check in task_wants_autogroup().
+	 */
+	sched_move_task(p);
+}
+
 static void
 autogroup_move_group(struct task_struct *p, struct autogroup *ag)
 {
@@ -142,6 +158,9 @@ autogroup_move_group(struct task_struct *p, struct autogroup *ag)
 	 * In the latter case for_each_thread() can not miss a migrating thread,
 	 * cpu_cgroup_attach() must not be possible after cgroup_exit() and it
 	 * can't be removed from thread list, we hold ->siglock.
+	 *
+	 * If an exiting thread was already removed from thread list we rely on
+	 * sched_autogroup_exit_task().
 	 */
 	for_each_thread(p, t)
 		sched_move_task(t);
-- 
2.5.0