Re: [PATCH] cgroup: fix unbalanced locking

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Sep 18 2014 - 12:34:19 EST


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:28:46PM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> cgroup_pidlist_start() holds cgrp->pidlist_mutex and then calls
> pidlist_array_load(), and cgroup_pidlist_stop() releases the mutex.
>
> It is wrong that we release the mutex in the failure path in
> pidlist_array_load(), because cgroup_pidlist_stop() will be called
> no matter if cgroup_pidlist_start() returns errno or not.
>
> Fixes: 4bac00d16a8760eae7205e41d2c246477d42a210
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.14+
> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to cgroup/for-3.17-fixes.

Thanks.

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tejun
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