Re: cgroup/next tree: reference to uninitialized percpu ref

From: Li Zefan
Date: Sun Aug 18 2013 - 23:47:06 EST


On 2013/8/19 11:32, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The kernel oops[1] is triggered during kernel boot with the latest next
> tree(3.11.0-rc5-next-20130816), looks it is caused by reference to uninitialized
> percpu ref of root cgroup, and below patch can fix the problem:
>

Thanks for the report. Li Zhong has summited a patch to fix it:

www.spinics.net/lists/linux-next/msg26414.html

and it should show up in linux-next tree when next is updated.

> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 723194f..0e8954b 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -4485,7 +4485,8 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent,
> struct dentry *dentry,
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = css_ar[ss->subsys_id];
>
> dget(dentry);
> - percpu_ref_get(&css->parent->refcnt);
> + if (!(css->parent->flags & CSS_ROOT))
> + percpu_ref_get(&css->parent->refcnt);
> }
>


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