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Tejun Heo committed eaf797abc53
cgroup: update how a newly forked task gets associated with css_set When a new process is forked, cgroup_fork() associates it with the css_set of its parent but doesn't link it into it. After the new process is linked to tasklist, cgroup_post_fork() does the linking. This is problematic for cgroup_transfer_tasks() as there's no way to tell whether there are tasks which are pointing to a css_set but not linked yet. It is impossible to implement an operation which transfer all tasks of a cgroup to another and the current cgroup_transfer_tasks() can easily be tricked into leaving a newly forked process behind if it gets called between cgroup_fork() and cgroup_post_fork(). Let's make association with a css_set and linking atomic by moving it to cgroup_post_fork(). cgroup_fork() sets child->cgroups to init_css_set as a placeholder and cgroup_post_fork() is updated to perform both the association with the parent's cgroup and linking there. This means that a newly created task will point to init_css_set without holding a ref to it much like what it does on the exit path. Empty cg_list is used to indicate that the task isn't holding a ref to the associated css_set. This fixes an actual bug with cgroup_transfer_tasks(); however, I'm not marking it for -stable. The whole thing is broken in multiple other ways which require invasive updates to fix and I don't think it's worthwhile to bother with backporting this particular one. Fortunately, the only user is cpuset and these bugs don't crash the machine. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>