netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] don't attach a task to a dead cgroup

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Message-ID: <4F960DFD.2080502@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:20:45 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] don't attach a task to a dead cgroup

(2012/04/24 4:37), Glauber Costa wrote:

> Not all external callers of cgroup_attach_task() test to
> see if the cgroup is still live - the internal callers at
> cgroup.c does.
> 
> With this test in cgroup_attach_task, we can assure that
> no tasks are ever moved to a cgroup that is past its
> destruction point and was already marked as dead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> CC: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
> CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


> ---
>  kernel/cgroup.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index b61b938..932c318 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -1927,6 +1927,9 @@ int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk)
>  	struct cgroup_taskset tset = { };
>  	struct css_set *newcg;
>  
> +	if (cgroup_is_removed(cgrp))
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
>  	/* @tsk either already exited or can't exit until the end */
>  	if (tsk->flags & PF_EXITING)
>  		return -ESRCH;



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