From a18b83b7ef3c98cd8b4bb885e4a649a8f30fb7b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bharata B Rao Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:02:53 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2 Impact: fix cgroups race under rcu-preempt cpuacct_charge() obtains task's ca and does a hierarchy walk upwards. This can race with the task's movement between cgroups. This race can cause an access to freed ca pointer in cpuacct_charge() or access to invalid cgroups pointer of the task. This will not happen with rcu or tree rcu as cpuacct_charge() is called with preemption disabled. However if rcupreempt is used, the race is seen. Thanks to Li Zefan for explaining this. Fix this race by explicitly protecting ca and the hierarchy walk with rcu_read_lock(). Changes for v2: - Update patch descrition (as per Li Zefan's review comments). - Remove comments in cpuacct_charge() which explained why rcu_read_lock() was needed (as per Peter Zijlstra's review comments). Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao Cc: Dhaval Giani Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Paul Menage Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Balbir Singh Tested-by: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 186c6fd08acf..cc397aae5eae 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -9654,12 +9654,17 @@ static void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime) return; cpu = task_cpu(tsk); + + rcu_read_lock(); + ca = task_ca(tsk); for (; ca; ca = ca->parent) { u64 *cpuusage = percpu_ptr(ca->cpuusage, cpu); *cpuusage += cputime; } + + rcu_read_unlock(); } struct cgroup_subsys cpuacct_subsys = {