Hello, Linus.
Two cpuset locking fixes from Li. Both tagged for -stable.
The following changes since commit 532de3fc72adc2a6525c4d53c07bf81e1732083d:
cgroup: update cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglock (2014-02-18
18:23:18 -0500)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git for-3.14-fixes
for you to fetch changes up to 99afb0fd5f05aac467ffa85c36778fec4396209b:
cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall() (2014-02-27
09:39:54 -0500)
Thanks.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Li Zefan (2):
cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()
cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()
kernel/cpuset.c | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 4410ac6..e6b1b66 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -974,12 +974,6 @@ static int update_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, struct cpuset
*trialcs,
* Temporarilly set tasks mems_allowed to target nodes of migration,
* so that the migration code can allocate pages on these nodes.
*
- * Call holding cpuset_mutex, so current's cpuset won't change
- * during this call, as manage_mutex holds off any cpuset_attach()
- * calls. Therefore we don't need to take task_lock around the
- * call to guarantee_online_mems(), as we know no one is changing
- * our task's cpuset.
- *
* While the mm_struct we are migrating is typically from some
* other task, the task_struct mems_allowed that we are hacking
* is for our current task, which must allocate new pages for that
@@ -996,8 +990,10 @@ static void cpuset_migrate_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, const
nodemask_t *from,
do_migrate_pages(mm, from, to, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
+ rcu_read_lock();
mems_cs = effective_nodemask_cpuset(task_cs(tsk));
guarantee_online_mems(mems_cs, &tsk->mems_allowed);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
/*
@@ -2486,9 +2482,9 @@ int __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall(int node, gfp_t
gfp_mask)
task_lock(current);
cs = nearest_hardwall_ancestor(task_cs(current));
+ allowed = node_isset(node, cs->mems_allowed);
task_unlock(current);
- allowed = node_isset(node, cs->mems_allowed);
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
return allowed;
}
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