cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 03:13:39 +0000 (11:13 +0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:11:52 +0000 (08:11 -0500)
commitc1a71504e9715812a2d15e7c03b5aa147ae70ded
tree5b58cb4434889ffe3038f6a87fdb1b7cf85dfe2f
parent266ccd505e8acb98717819cef9d91d66c7b237cc
cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed

Hugh reported this bug:

> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP is broken in 3.13-rc.  Try something like this:
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/tmpfs /tmp/memcg
> mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G tmpfs /tmp/tmpfs
> mount -t cgroup -o memory memcg /tmp/memcg
> mkdir /tmp/memcg/old
> echo 512M >/tmp/memcg/old/memory.limit_in_bytes
> echo $$ >/tmp/memcg/old/tasks
> cp /dev/zero /tmp/tmpfs/zero 2>/dev/null
> echo $$ >/tmp/memcg/tasks
> rmdir /tmp/memcg/old
> sleep 1 # let rmdir work complete
> mkdir /tmp/memcg/new
> umount /tmp/tmpfs
> dmesg | grep WARNING
> rmdir /tmp/memcg/new
> umount /tmp/memcg
>
> Shows lots of WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1006 at kernel/res_counter.c:91
>                            res_counter_uncharge_locked+0x1f/0x2f()
>
> Breakage comes from 34c00c319ce7 ("memcg: convert to use cgroup id").
>
> The lifetime of a cgroup id is different from the lifetime of the
> css id it replaced: memsw's css_get()s do nothing to hold on to the
> old cgroup id, it soon gets recycled to a new cgroup, which then
> mysteriously inherits the old's swap, without any charge for it.

Instead of removing cgroup id right after all the csses have been
offlined, we should do that after csses have been destroyed.

To make sure an invalid css pointer won't be returned after the css
is destroyed, make sure css_from_id() returns NULL in this case.

tj: Updated comment to note planned changes for cgrp->id.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
kernel/cgroup.c