It doesn't make sense to nest cgroup_mutex inside threadgroup_lock
when it should be outer to most all locks used by all cgroup
controllers.  It was nested inside threadgroup_lock only because some
controllers were abusing cgroup_mutex inside controllers leading to
locking order inversion.

cgroup_mutex is no longer abused by controllers and can be put outer
to threadgroup_lock.  Reverse the locking order in
attach_task_by_pid().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lize...@huawei.com>
---
Li, can you please ack this?

Thanks!

 kernel/cgroup.c |   21 ++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 04fa2ab..24106b8 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2134,17 +2134,13 @@ static int attach_task_by_pid(struct cgroup *cgrp, u64 
pid, bool threadgroup)
        const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
        int ret;
 
-       if (!cgroup_lock_live_group(cgrp))
-               return -ENODEV;
-
 retry_find_task:
        rcu_read_lock();
        if (pid) {
                tsk = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
                if (!tsk) {
                        rcu_read_unlock();
-                       ret= -ESRCH;
-                       goto out_unlock_cgroup;
+                       return -ESRCH;
                }
                /*
                 * even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group, we
@@ -2155,8 +2151,7 @@ retry_find_task:
                    !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
                    !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid)) {
                        rcu_read_unlock();
-                       ret = -EACCES;
-                       goto out_unlock_cgroup;
+                       return -EACCES;
                }
        } else
                tsk = current;
@@ -2170,9 +2165,8 @@ retry_find_task:
         * with no rt_runtime allocated.  Just say no.
         */
        if (tsk == kthreadd_task || (tsk->flags & PF_THREAD_BOUND)) {
-               ret = -EINVAL;
                rcu_read_unlock();
-               goto out_unlock_cgroup;
+               return -EINVAL;
        }
 
        get_task_struct(tsk);
@@ -2194,13 +2188,14 @@ retry_find_task:
                }
        }
 
-       ret = cgroup_attach_task(cgrp, tsk, threadgroup);
+       ret = -ENODEV;
+       if (cgroup_lock_live_group(cgrp)) {
+               ret = cgroup_attach_task(cgrp, tsk, threadgroup);
+               cgroup_unlock();
+       }
 
        threadgroup_unlock(tsk);
-
        put_task_struct(tsk);
-out_unlock_cgroup:
-       cgroup_unlock();
        return ret;
 }
 
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