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authorZhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>2022-03-17 10:41:57 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-03-23 09:10:41 +0100
commitaa44002e7db25f333ddf412fb81e8db6c100841a (patch)
tree4970f25f31e353e1789524735c39061c74e35cbf /kernel
parent1ba1ec19460247ebe8b41c9a883d55f633c1282d (diff)
cpuset: Fix unsafe lock order between cpuset lock and cpuslock
The backport commit 4eec5fe1c680a ("cgroup/cpuset: Fix a race between cpuset_attach() and cpu hotplug") looks suspicious since it comes before commit d74b27d63a8b ("cgroup/cpuset: Change cpuset_rwsem and hotplug lock order") v5.4-rc1~176^2~30 when the locking order was: cpuset lock, cpus lock. Fix it with the correct locking order and reduce the cpus locking range because only set_cpus_allowed_ptr() needs the protection of cpus lock. Fixes: 4eec5fe1c680a ("cgroup/cpuset: Fix a race between cpuset_attach() and cpu hotplug") Reported-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index d43d25acc95a..153628277a48 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -1528,9 +1528,13 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
cgroup_taskset_first(tset, &css);
cs = css_cs(css);
- cpus_read_lock();
mutex_lock(&cpuset_mutex);
+ /*
+ * It should hold cpus lock because a cpu offline event can
+ * cause set_cpus_allowed_ptr() failed.
+ */
+ get_online_cpus();
/* prepare for attach */
if (cs == &top_cpuset)
cpumask_copy(cpus_attach, cpu_possible_mask);
@@ -1549,6 +1553,7 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
cpuset_change_task_nodemask(task, &cpuset_attach_nodemask_to);
cpuset_update_task_spread_flag(cs, task);
}
+ put_online_cpus();
/*
* Change mm for all threadgroup leaders. This is expensive and may
@@ -1584,7 +1589,6 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
wake_up(&cpuset_attach_wq);
mutex_unlock(&cpuset_mutex);
- cpus_read_unlock();
}
/* The various types of files and directories in a cpuset file system */