cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state transitions

There are 4 state transitions possible for a freezer.  Only FREEZING ->
FROZEN transaction is done lazily.  This patch allows update_freezer_state
only to perform this transaction and renames the function to
update_if_frozen.

Moreover is_task_frozen_enough function is removed and its every occurence
is replaced with frozen().  Therefore for a group to become FROZEN every
task must be frozen.

The previous version could trigger a following bug: When cgroup is in the
process of freezing (but none of its tasks are frozen yet),
update_freezer_state() (called from freezer_read or freezer_write) would
incorrectly report that a group is 'THAWED' (because nfrozen = 0),
allowing the transaction FREEZING -> THAWED without writing anything to
'freezer.state'.  This is incorrect according to the documentation.  This
could result in a 'THAWED' cgroup with frozen tasks inside.

A code to reproduce this bug is available here:
http://pentium.hopto.org/~thinred/repos/linux-misc/freezer_bug2.c

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
index c287627bed3d..e7bebb7c6c38 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
@@ -153,13 +153,6 @@ static void freezer_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
 	kfree(cgroup_freezer(cgroup));
 }
 
-/* Task is frozen or will freeze immediately when next it gets woken */
-static bool is_task_frozen_enough(struct task_struct *task)
-{
-	return frozen(task) ||
-		(task_is_stopped_or_traced(task) && freezing(task));
-}
-
 /*
  * The call to cgroup_lock() in the freezer.state write method prevents
  * a write to that file racing against an attach, and hence the
@@ -236,31 +229,30 @@ static void freezer_fork(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct task_struct *task)
 /*
  * caller must hold freezer->lock
  */
-static void update_freezer_state(struct cgroup *cgroup,
+static void update_if_frozen(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 				 struct freezer *freezer)
 {
 	struct cgroup_iter it;
 	struct task_struct *task;
 	unsigned int nfrozen = 0, ntotal = 0;
+	enum freezer_state old_state = freezer->state;
 
 	cgroup_iter_start(cgroup, &it);
 	while ((task = cgroup_iter_next(cgroup, &it))) {
 		ntotal++;
-		if (is_task_frozen_enough(task))
+		if (frozen(task))
 			nfrozen++;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Transition to FROZEN when no new tasks can be added ensures
-	 * that we never exist in the FROZEN state while there are unfrozen
-	 * tasks.
-	 */
-	if (nfrozen == ntotal)
-		freezer->state = CGROUP_FROZEN;
-	else if (nfrozen > 0)
-		freezer->state = CGROUP_FREEZING;
-	else
-		freezer->state = CGROUP_THAWED;
+	if (old_state == CGROUP_THAWED) {
+		BUG_ON(nfrozen > 0);
+	} else if (old_state == CGROUP_FREEZING) {
+		if (nfrozen == ntotal)
+			freezer->state = CGROUP_FROZEN;
+	} else { /* old_state == CGROUP_FROZEN */
+		BUG_ON(nfrozen != ntotal);
+	}
+
 	cgroup_iter_end(cgroup, &it);
 }
 
@@ -279,7 +271,7 @@ static int freezer_read(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct cftype *cft,
 	if (state == CGROUP_FREEZING) {
 		/* We change from FREEZING to FROZEN lazily if the cgroup was
 		 * only partially frozen when we exitted write. */
-		update_freezer_state(cgroup, freezer);
+		update_if_frozen(cgroup, freezer);
 		state = freezer->state;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock);
@@ -301,7 +293,7 @@ static int try_to_freeze_cgroup(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct freezer *freezer)
 	while ((task = cgroup_iter_next(cgroup, &it))) {
 		if (!freeze_task(task, true))
 			continue;
-		if (is_task_frozen_enough(task))
+		if (frozen(task))
 			continue;
 		if (!freezing(task) && !freezer_should_skip(task))
 			num_cant_freeze_now++;
@@ -335,7 +327,7 @@ static int freezer_change_state(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock);
 
-	update_freezer_state(cgroup, freezer);
+	update_if_frozen(cgroup, freezer);
 	if (goal_state == freezer->state)
 		goto out;