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Tejun Heo committed 49957f8e2a4
cgroup: newly created dirs and files should be owned by the creator While converting cgroup to kernfs, 2bd59d48ebfb ("cgroup: convert to kernfs") accidentally dropped the logic which makes newly created cgroup dirs and files owned by the current uid / gid. This broke cases where cgroup subtree management is delegated to !root as the sub manager wouldn't be able to create more than single level of hierarchy or put tasks into child cgroups it created. Among other things, this breaks user session management in systemd and one of the symptoms was 90s hang during shutdown. User session systemd running as the user creates a sub-service to initiate shutdown and tries to put kill(1) into it but fails because cgroup.procs is owned by root. This leads to 90s hang during shutdown. Implement cgroup_kn_set_ugid() which sets a kn's uid and gid to those of the caller and use it from file and dir creation paths. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>