From 967db0ea65b0bf8507a7643ac8f296c4f2c0a834 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Salman Qazi Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:51:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: make sure that decisions in __css_put are atomic __css_put is using atomic_dec on the ref count, and then looking at the ref count to make decisions. This is prone to races, as someone else may decrement ref count between our decrement and our decision. Instead, we should base our decisions on the value that we decremented the ref count to. (This results in an actual race on Google's kernel which I haven't been able to reproduce on the upstream kernel. Having said that, it's still incorrect by inspection). Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi Acked-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/cgroup.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 72fcd3069a90..ceeafe874b3f 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4984,8 +4984,7 @@ void __css_put(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) struct cgroup *cgrp = css->cgroup; rcu_read_lock(); - atomic_dec(&css->refcnt); - switch (css_refcnt(css)) { + switch (atomic_dec_return(&css->refcnt)) { case 1: if (notify_on_release(cgrp)) { set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &cgrp->flags);