linux/include
Tejun Heo 18fa84a2db cgroup: Use css_tryget() instead of css_tryget_online() in task_get_css()
A PF_EXITING task can stay associated with an offline css.  If such
task calls task_get_css(), it can get stuck indefinitely.  This can be
triggered by BSD process accounting which writes to a file with
PF_EXITING set when racing against memcg disable as in the backtrace
at the end.

After this change, task_get_css() may return a css which was already
offline when the function was called.  None of the existing users are
affected by this change.

  INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
  INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
  ...
  NMI backtrace for cpu 0
  ...
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   dump_stack+0x46/0x68
   nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold.2+0x13/0x57
   nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xba/0xca
   rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x9e/0xce
   rcu_check_callbacks.cold.74+0x2af/0x433
   update_process_times+0x28/0x60
   tick_sched_timer+0x34/0x70
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0xee/0x250
   hrtimer_interrupt+0xf4/0x210
   smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x56/0x110
   apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
   </IRQ>
  RIP: 0010:balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x28f/0x3d0
  ...
   btrfs_file_write_iter+0x31b/0x563
   __vfs_write+0xfa/0x140
   __kernel_write+0x4f/0x100
   do_acct_process+0x495/0x580
   acct_process+0xb9/0xdb
   do_exit+0x748/0xa00
   do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0
   get_signal+0x254/0x560
   do_signal+0x23/0x5c0
   exit_to_usermode_loop+0x5d/0xa0
   prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x53/0x80
   retint_user+0x8/0x8

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Fixes: ec438699a9 ("cgroup, block: implement task_get_css() and use it in bio_associate_current()")
2019-05-29 13:46:25 -07:00
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acpi More ACPI updates for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-15 08:58:49 -07:00
asm-generic treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 47 2019-05-24 17:27:13 +02:00
clocksource
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drm drm pull request for 5.2 2019-05-08 21:35:19 -07:00
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keys treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
kvm
linux cgroup: Use css_tryget() instead of css_tryget_online() in task_get_css() 2019-05-29 13:46:25 -07:00
math-emu
media treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 61 2019-05-24 17:36:45 +02:00
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misc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 61 2019-05-24 17:36:45 +02:00
net treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
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ras
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soc Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-19 11:11:20 -07:00
sound treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 61 2019-05-24 17:36:45 +02:00
target scsi: target/iscsi: Handle too large immediate data buffers correctly 2019-04-12 20:20:06 -04:00
trace treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
uapi SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 2 2019-05-24 14:31:58 -07:00
video treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 27 2019-05-24 17:27:10 +02:00
xen block: pass page to xen_biovec_phys_mergeable 2019-04-01 12:11:13 -06:00