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Waiman Long committed c4fa6c43ce4
cgroup: Reinit cgroup_taskset structure before cgroup_migrate_execute() returns The cgroup_taskset structure within the larger cgroup_mgctx structure is supposed to be used once and then discarded. That is not really the case in the hotplug code path: cpuset_hotplug_workfn() - cgroup_transfer_tasks() - cgroup_migrate() - cgroup_migrate_add_task() - cgroup_migrate_execute() In this case, the cgroup_migrate() function is called multiple time with the same cgroup_mgctx structure to transfer the tasks from one cgroup to another one-by-one. The second time cgroup_migrate() is called, the cgroup_taskset will be in an incorrect state and so may cause the system to panic. For example, [ 150.888410] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001db648 [ 150.888414] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 150.888417] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 [ 150.888417] NUMA [ 150.888419] pSeries : [ 150.888545] NIP [c0000000001db648] cpuset_can_attach+0x58/0x1b0 [ 150.888548] LR [c0000000001db638] cpuset_can_attach+0x48/0x1b0 [ 150.888551] Call Trace: [ 150.888554] [c0000005f65cb940] [c0000000001db638] cpuset_can_attach+0x48/0x1b 0 (unreliable) [ 150.888559] [c0000005f65cb9a0] [c0000000001cff04] cgroup_migrate_execute+0xc4/0x4b0 [ 150.888563] [c0000005f65cba20] [c0000000001d7d14] cgroup_transfer_tasks+0x1d4/0x370 [ 150.888568] [c0000005f65cbb70] [c0000000001ddcb0] cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x710/0x8f0 [ 150.888572] [c0000005f65cbc80] [c00000000012032c] process_one_work+0x1ac/0x4d0 [ 150.888576] [c0000005f65cbd20] [c0000000001206f8] worker_thread+0xa8/0x5b0 [ 150.888580] [c0000005f65cbdc0] [c0000000001293f8] kthread+0x168/0x1b0 [ 150.888584] [c0000005f65cbe30] [c00000000000b368] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74 To allow reuse of the cgroup_mgctx structure, some fields in that structure are now re-initialized at the end of cgroup_migrate_execute() function call so that the structure can be reused again in a later iteration without causing problem. This bug was introduced in the commit e595cd706982 ("group: track migration context in cgroup_mgctx") in 4.11. This commit moves the cgroup_taskset initialization out of cgroup_migrate(). The commit 10467270fb3 ("cgroup: don't call migration methods if there are no tasks to migrate") helped, but did not completely resolve the problem. Fixes: e595cd706982bff0211e6fafe5a108421e747fbc ("group: track migration context in cgroup_mgctx") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.11+