cgroup: Remove duplicates in cgroup v1 tasks file
authorMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Mon, 9 Oct 2023 13:58:11 +0000 (15:58 +0200)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 9 Oct 2023 16:42:05 +0000 (06:42 -1000)
commit1ca0b605150501b7dc59f3016271da4eb3e96fce
tree7ad8733ea44511c6e188f27d622936224c1c3477
parent94f6f0550c625fab1f373bb86a6669b45e9748b3
cgroup: Remove duplicates in cgroup v1 tasks file

One PID may appear multiple times in a preloaded pidlist.
(Possibly due to PID recycling but we have reports of the same
task_struct appearing with different PIDs, thus possibly involving
transfer of PID via de_thread().)

Because v1 seq_file iterator uses PIDs as position, it leads to
a message:
> seq_file: buggy .next function kernfs_seq_next did not update position index

Conservative and quick fix consists of removing duplicates from `tasks`
file (as opposed to removing pidlists altogether). It doesn't affect
correctness (it's sufficient to show a PID once), performance impact
would be hidden by unconditional sorting of the pidlist already in place
(asymptotically).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230823174804.23632-1-mkoutny@suse.com/
Suggested-by: Firo Yang <firo.yang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c