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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>2010-03-11 00:22:34 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-13 00:52:37 +0100
commita0a4db548edcce067c1201ef25cf2bc29f32dca4 (patch)
tree6f8139a582179666cd248d978332ed0e32ad9f0f /kernel/cgroup.c
parentcgroups: fix race between userspace and kernelspace (diff)
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cgroups: remove events before destroying subsystem state objects
Events should be removed after rmdir of cgroup directory, but before destroying subsystem state objects. Let's take reference to cgroup directory dentry to do that. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 87441fc75663..ef909a329750 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2994,6 +2994,7 @@ static void cgroup_event_remove(struct work_struct *work)
eventfd_ctx_put(event->eventfd);
kfree(event);
+ dput(cgrp->dentry);
}
/*
@@ -3114,6 +3115,13 @@ static int cgroup_write_event_control(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
goto fail;
}
+ /*
+ * Events should be removed after rmdir of cgroup directory, but before
+ * destroying subsystem state objects. Let's take reference to cgroup
+ * directory dentry to do that.
+ */
+ dget(cgrp->dentry);
+
spin_lock(&cgrp->event_list_lock);
list_add(&event->list, &cgrp->event_list);
spin_unlock(&cgrp->event_list_lock);