With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:
$ cat /proc/sched_debug
...
kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
...
Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either
rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held.
The rcu_dereference_check() does include cgroup_lock_is_held(), so we
know that this lock is not held. Therefore, in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel,
to say nothing of a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, the original code could
have ended up copying a string out of the freelist.
This patch inserts RCU read-side primitives needed to prevent this
scenario.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
{
char path[64];
+ rcu_read_lock();
cgroup_path(task_group(p)->css.cgroup, path, sizeof(path));
+ rcu_read_unlock();
SEQ_printf(m, " %s", path);
}
#endif