This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cgroup: fix error return from cgroup_create()
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cgroup-fix-error-return-from-cgroup_create.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b58c89986a77a23658682a100eb15d8edb571ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 10:26:33 -0500
Subject: cgroup: fix error return from cgroup_create()
From: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
commit b58c89986a77a23658682a100eb15d8edb571ebb upstream.
cgroup_create() was returning 0 after allocation failures. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4348,7 +4348,7 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup
struct cgroup *cgrp;
struct cgroup_name *name;
struct cgroupfs_root *root = parent->root;
- int err = 0;
+ int err;
struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
struct super_block *sb = root->sb;
@@ -4358,8 +4358,10 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup
return -ENOMEM;
name = cgroup_alloc_name(dentry);
- if (!name)
+ if (!name) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_free_cgrp;
+ }
rcu_assign_pointer(cgrp->name, name);
/*
@@ -4367,8 +4369,10 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup
* a half-baked cgroup.
*/
cgrp->id = idr_alloc(&root->cgroup_idr, NULL, 1, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (cgrp->id < 0)
+ if (cgrp->id < 0) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_free_name;
+ }
/*
* Only live parents can have children. Note that the liveliness
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.13/cgroup-use-an-ordered-workqueue-for-cgroup-destruction.patch
queue-3.13/cgroup-update-cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists-to-grab-siglock.patch
queue-3.13/cgroup-fix-error-return-from-cgroup_create.patch
queue-3.13/cgroup-fix-error-return-value-in-cgroup_mount.patch
queue-3.13/cgroup-fix-locking-in-cgroup_cfts_commit.patch
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