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    cgroup: avoid attaching a cgroup root to two different superblocks · bfb0b80d
    Zefan Li authored
    
    
    Run this:
    
        touch file0
        for ((; ;))
        {
            mount -t cpuset xxx file0
        }
    
    And this concurrently:
    
        touch file1
        for ((; ;))
        {
            mount -t cpuset xxx file1
        }
    
    We'll trigger a warning like this:
    
     ------------[ cut here ]------------
     WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4675 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:317 percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm+0x92/0xb0
     percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm called more than once on css_release!
     CPU: 1 PID: 4675 Comm: mount Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5+ #5
     Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
     Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x63/0x84
      __warn+0xd1/0xf0
      warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
      percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm+0x92/0xb0
      cgroup_kill_sb+0x95/0xb0
      deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70
      deactivate_super+0x46/0x60
     ...
     ---[ end trace a79f61c2a2633700 ]---
    
    Here's a race:
    
      Thread A				Thread B
    
      cgroup1_mount()
        # alloc a new cgroup root
        cgroup_setup_root()
    					cgroup1_mount()
    					  # no sb yet, returns NULL
    					  kernfs_pin_sb()
    
    					  # but succeeds in getting the refcnt,
    					  # so re-use cgroup root
    					  percpu_ref_tryget_live()
        # alloc sb with cgroup root
        cgroup_do_mount()
    
      cgroup_kill_sb()
    					  # alloc another sb with same root
    					  cgroup_do_mount()
    
    					cgroup_kill_sb()
    
    We end up using the same cgroup root for two different superblocks,
    so percpu_ref_kill() will be called twice on the same root when the
    two superblocks are destroyed.
    
    We should fix to make sure the superblock pinning is really successful.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
    Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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