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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index d1739fc7eb94..75aec12c78a0 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4814,31 +4814,20 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_cgroupstats_operations = { * * A pointer to the shared css_set was automatically copied in * fork.c by dup_task_struct(). However, we ignore that copy, since - * it was not made under the protection of RCU, cgroup_mutex or - * threadgroup_change_begin(), so it might no longer be a valid - * cgroup pointer. cgroup_attach_task() might have already changed - * current->cgroups, allowing the previously referenced cgroup - * group to be removed and freed. - * - * Outside the pointer validity we also need to process the css_set - * inheritance between threadgoup_change_begin() and - * threadgoup_change_end(), this way there is no leak in any process - * wide migration performed by cgroup_attach_proc() that could otherwise - * miss a thread because it is too early or too late in the fork stage. + * it was not made under the protection of RCU or cgroup_mutex, so + * might no longer be a valid cgroup pointer. cgroup_attach_task() might + * have already changed current->cgroups, allowing the previously + * referenced cgroup group to be removed and freed. * * At the point that cgroup_fork() is called, 'current' is the parent * task, and the passed argument 'child' points to the child task. */ void cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *child) { - /* - * We don't need to task_lock() current because current->cgroups - * can't be changed concurrently here. The parent obviously hasn't - * exited and called cgroup_exit(), and we are synchronized against - * cgroup migration through threadgroup_change_begin(). - */ + task_lock(current); child->cgroups = current->cgroups; get_css_set(child->cgroups); + task_unlock(current); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&child->cg_list); } |