From b629317e66fb1c6066c550dded45ab85a936163c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:30:40 +0800 Subject: sched: Fix an RCU warning in print_task() With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, a warning can be triggered: $ cat /proc/sched_debug ... kernel/cgroup.c:1649 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! ... Both cgroup_path() and task_group() should be called with either rcu_read_lock or cgroup_mutex held. The rcu_dereference_check() does include cgroup_lock_is_held(), so we know that this lock is not held. Therefore, in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel, to say nothing of a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, the original code could have ended up copying a string out of the freelist. This patch inserts RCU read-side primitives needed to prevent this scenario. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/sched_debug.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sched_debug.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c index 9b49db144037..19be00ba6123 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_debug.c +++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ print_task(struct seq_file *m, struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p) { char path[64]; + rcu_read_lock(); cgroup_path(task_group(p)->css.cgroup, path, sizeof(path)); + rcu_read_unlock(); SEQ_printf(m, " %s", path); } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b