cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()

We don't need to hold the parent task_lock() on the
parent in cgroup_fork() because we are already synchronized
against the two places that may change the parent css_set
concurrently:

- cgroup_exit(), but the parent obviously can't exit concurrently
- cgroup migration: we are synchronized against threadgroup_lock()

So we can safely remove the task_lock() there.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index bc3caff138d..dae50d0d8e4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4556,20 +4556,31 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_cgroupstats_operations = {
  *
  * A pointer to the shared css_set was automatically copied in
  * fork.c by dup_task_struct().  However, we ignore that copy, since
- * it was not made under the protection of RCU or cgroup_mutex, so
- * might no longer be a valid cgroup pointer.  cgroup_attach_task() might
- * have already changed current->cgroups, allowing the previously
- * referenced cgroup group to be removed and freed.
+ * it was not made under the protection of RCU, cgroup_mutex or
+ * threadgroup_change_begin(), so it might no longer be a valid
+ * cgroup pointer.  cgroup_attach_task() might have already changed
+ * current->cgroups, allowing the previously referenced cgroup
+ * group to be removed and freed.
+ *
+ * Outside the pointer validity we also need to process the css_set
+ * inheritance between threadgoup_change_begin() and
+ * threadgoup_change_end(), this way there is no leak in any process
+ * wide migration performed by cgroup_attach_proc() that could otherwise
+ * miss a thread because it is too early or too late in the fork stage.
  *
  * At the point that cgroup_fork() is called, 'current' is the parent
  * task, and the passed argument 'child' points to the child task.
  */
 void cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *child)
 {
-	task_lock(current);
+	/*
+	 * We don't need to task_lock() current because current->cgroups
+	 * can't be changed concurrently here. The parent obviously hasn't
+	 * exited and called cgroup_exit(), and we are synchronized against
+	 * cgroup migration through threadgroup_change_begin().
+	 */
 	child->cgroups = current->cgroups;
 	get_css_set(child->cgroups);
-	task_unlock(current);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&child->cg_list);
 }