On 2014/2/14 2:29, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Currently, there's nothing preventing cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists()
> from missing set PF_EXITING and race against cgroup_exit().  Depending
> on the timing, cgroup_exit() may finish with the task still linked on
> css_set leading to list corruption.  Fix it by grabbing siglock in
> cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() so that PF_EXITING is guaranteed to be
> visible.
> 
> This whole on-demand cg_list optimization is extremely fragile and has
> ample possibility to lead to bugs which can cause things like
> once-a-year oops during boot.  I'm wondering whether the better
> approach would be just adding "cgroup_disable=all" handling which
> disables the whole cgroup rather than tempting fate with this
> on-demand craziness.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Li Zefan <lize...@huawei.com>

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