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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2010-04-22 17:30:40 +0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-05-04 09:25:01 -0700
commitb629317e66fb1c6066c550dded45ab85a936163c (patch)
treef618cd5bc21001144999a48bcb57c4bef725db06 /kernel/sched_debug.c
parentfae9c791703606636c1220e47f6690660042ce7f (diff)
downloadlinux-b629317e66fb1c6066c550dded45ab85a936163c.tar.gz
sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task()
With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered:

  $ cat /proc/sched_debug

...
kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
...

Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either
rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held.

The rcu_dereference_check() does include cgroup_lock_is_held(), so we
know that this lock is not held.  Therefore, in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel,
to say nothing of a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, the original code could
have ended up copying a string out of the freelist.

This patch inserts RCU read-side primitives needed to prevent this
scenario.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched_debug.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_debug.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c
index 9b49db144037..19be00ba6123 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ print_task(struct seq_file *m, struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 	{
 		char path[64];
 
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		cgroup_path(task_group(p)->css.cgroup, path, sizeof(path));
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		SEQ_printf(m, " %s", path);
 	}
 #endif