A "domain invalid" cgroup *can* sometimes have member tasks

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Tejun

According to Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt, a "domain invalid" cgroup
can't have member tasks. And indeed this is generally not permitted.

However, someone recently showed me a scenario where a "domain
invalid" cgroup can have member processes. See the following example:

# mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/grp1
# sleep 1000 &
[1] 10549
# echo 10549 > /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/grp1/cgroup.procs
# echo threaded > /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/cgroup.type
# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/cgroup.type
threaded
# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/grp1/cgroup.type
domain invalid
# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/grp1/cgroup.threads
10549

>From the above, we see that the cgroup grp0/grp1 is of type "domain
invalid" and has a member thread. This seems to be a violation of the
documented rules, and is I assume a bug, since in the above scenario,
we are denied from adding further tasks to the grp0/grp1 cgroup:

# sleep 2000 &
[2] 10553
# echo 10553 > /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/grp0/grp1/cgroup.procs
sh: echo: write error: Operation not supported

Could you comment please?

Thanks,

Michael

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