cgroups: fix a race between cgroup_clone and umount
authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:00:45 +0000 (12:00 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:35:25 +0000 (10:35 -0800)
commit3253e0e602387759552ec337a1932b4fa0c38052
treeba6099c71827341d993c2579eca0cec94b8984dd
parentcb589ae37aca44b2b89827faace48a95c8a0a051
cgroups: fix a race between cgroup_clone and umount

commit 7b574b7b0124ed344911f5d581e9bc2d83bbeb19 upstream.

The race is calling cgroup_clone() while umounting the ns cgroup subsys,
and thus cgroup_clone() might access invalid cgroup_fs, or kill_sb() is
called after cgroup_clone() created a new dir in it.

The BUG I triggered is BUG_ON(root->number_of_cgroups != 1);

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at kernel/cgroup.c:1093!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ...
  Process umount (pid: 5177, ti=e411e000 task=e40c4670 task.ti=e411e000)
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<c0493df7>] ? deactivate_super+0x3f/0x51
   [<c04a3600>] ? mntput_no_expire+0xb3/0xdd
   [<c04a3ab2>] ? sys_umount+0x265/0x2ac
   [<c04a3b06>] ? sys_oldumount+0xd/0xf
   [<c0403911>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31
  ...
  EIP: [<c0456e76>] cgroup_kill_sb+0x23/0xe0 SS:ESP 0068:e411ef2c
  ---[ end trace c766c1be3bf944ac ]---

Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/cgroup.c