From 60f21a2649308bbd84919ba6656d5ccd660953cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:16:34 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter. scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks. scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking __scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap. Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from scx_task_iter(). Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0f0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter") Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 1 + kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 8 +++++--- kernel/sched/ext.c | 6 ++++-- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index e52160e85af4..f6d037a30fd8 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct kernel_clone_args; enum css_task_iter_flags { CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS = (1U << 0), /* walk only threadgroup leaders */ CSS_TASK_ITER_THREADED = (1U << 1), /* walk all threaded css_sets in the domain */ + CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD = (1U << 2), /* include exiting tasks */ CSS_TASK_ITER_SKIPPED = (1U << 16), /* internal flags */ }; diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 1f084ee71443..e51ce4cd3739 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -5059,10 +5059,12 @@ static void css_task_iter_advance(struct css_task_iter *it) task = list_entry(it->task_pos, struct task_struct, cg_list); /* - * Hide tasks that are exiting but not yet removed. Keep zombie - * leaders with live threads visible. + * Hide tasks that are exiting but not yet removed by default. Keep + * zombie leaders with live threads visible. Usages that need to walk + * every existing task can opt out via CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD. */ - if ((task->flags & PF_EXITING) && !atomic_read(&task->signal->live)) + if (!(it->flags & CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD) && + (task->flags & PF_EXITING) && !atomic_read(&task->signal->live)) goto repeat; if (it->flags & CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS) { diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c index 9483be03a4ca..dc5d4787296b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/ext.c +++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c @@ -766,7 +766,8 @@ static void scx_task_iter_start(struct scx_task_iter *iter, struct cgroup *cgrp) lockdep_assert_held(&cgroup_mutex); iter->cgrp = cgrp; iter->css_pos = css_next_descendant_pre(NULL, &iter->cgrp->self); - css_task_iter_start(iter->css_pos, 0, &iter->css_iter); + css_task_iter_start(iter->css_pos, CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD, + &iter->css_iter); return; } #endif @@ -866,7 +867,8 @@ static struct task_struct *scx_task_iter_next(struct scx_task_iter *iter) iter->css_pos = css_next_descendant_pre(iter->css_pos, &iter->cgrp->self); if (iter->css_pos) - css_task_iter_start(iter->css_pos, 0, &iter->css_iter); + css_task_iter_start(iter->css_pos, CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD, + &iter->css_iter); } return NULL; }