Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u2
Severity: critical
Tags: patch
Justification: breaks unrelated software
If you use cgroups, then systemd will on occasions destroy your
settings. To reproduce:
- Set up cgroups e.g. adding TaskIDs to /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/DIR/tasks
files. (I use cgrulesengd from package cgroup-tools, but any other
use of cgroups is equally affected.)
- Then when you use systemd commands:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start anacron
you will see your cgroups (your tasks files) becoming empty.
Command daemon-reload seems to happen within "apt-get dist-upgrade"
sequences, and "start anacron" happens nightly. (Some other systemd
commands may also affect.)
I propose the attached patch to avoid the issue. This patch seems to work
well for me.
Cheers, Paul
Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt11-pk07.12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii acl 2.2.52-2
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libaudit1 1:2.4-1+b1
ii libblkid1 2.25.2-6
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libcap2 1:2.24-8
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8
ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-5
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2
ii libkmod2 18-3
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii libsystemd0 215-17+deb8u2
ii mount 2.25.2-6
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
ii udev 215-17+deb8u2
ii util-linux 2.25.2-6
Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u2
Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn systemd-ui <none>
-- no debconf information
diff -r -U12 a/src/shared/cgroup-util.c b/src/shared/cgroup-util.c
--- a/src/shared/cgroup-util.c 2015-10-25 07:16:24.000000000 +1100
+++ b/src/shared/cgroup-util.c 2015-10-26 06:03:25.000000000 +1100
@@ -281,24 +281,34 @@
int cg_migrate(const char *cfrom, const char *pfrom, const char *cto, const char *pto, bool ignore_self) {
bool done = false;
_cleanup_set_free_ Set *s = NULL;
int r, ret = 0;
pid_t my_pid;
assert(cfrom);
assert(pfrom);
assert(cto);
assert(pto);
+ /*
+ * PSz 25 Oct 2015
+ * An empty "to" path is surely wrong (do not annoy cgroups that not ours)
+ */
+ if (!strlen(pto)) {
+ /* log_warning("Debug: cg_migrate skip from (%s)%s to (%s)%s", cfrom, pfrom, cto, pto); */
+ return ret;
+ }
+ /* log_warning("Debug: cg_migrate do from (%s)%s to (%s)%s", cfrom, pfrom, cto, pto); */
+
s = set_new(trivial_hash_func, trivial_compare_func);
if (!s)
return -ENOMEM;
my_pid = getpid();
do {
_cleanup_fclose_ FILE *f = NULL;
pid_t pid = 0;
done = true;
r = cg_enumerate_processes(cfrom, pfrom, &f);
