sched: Fix race in task_group()
Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.
Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.
The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 55844f2..c35a1a7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -538,22 +538,19 @@
/*
* Return the group to which this tasks belongs.
*
- * We use task_subsys_state_check() and extend the RCU verification with
- * pi->lock and rq->lock because cpu_cgroup_attach() holds those locks for each
- * task it moves into the cgroup. Therefore by holding either of those locks,
- * we pin the task to the current cgroup.
+ * We cannot use task_subsys_state() and friends because the cgroup
+ * subsystem changes that value before the cgroup_subsys::attach() method
+ * is called, therefore we cannot pin it and might observe the wrong value.
+ *
+ * The same is true for autogroup's p->signal->autogroup->tg, the autogroup
+ * core changes this before calling sched_move_task().
+ *
+ * Instead we use a 'copy' which is updated from sched_move_task() while
+ * holding both task_struct::pi_lock and rq::lock.
*/
static inline struct task_group *task_group(struct task_struct *p)
{
- struct task_group *tg;
- struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
-
- css = task_subsys_state_check(p, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id,
- lockdep_is_held(&p->pi_lock) ||
- lockdep_is_held(&task_rq(p)->lock));
- tg = container_of(css, struct task_group, css);
-
- return autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
+ return p->sched_task_group;
}
/* Change a task's cfs_rq and parent entity if it moves across CPUs/groups */