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Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups

From Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups
Date 2017-03-16 16:30 +0100
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On 03/15, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> @@ -2425,11 +2425,13 @@ ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kern
>  		tsk = tsk->group_leader;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Workqueue threads may acquire PF_NO_SETAFFINITY and become
> -	 * trapped in a cpuset, or RT worker may be born in a cgroup
> -	 * with no rt_runtime allocated.  Just say no.
> +	 * kthreads may acquire PF_NO_SETAFFINITY during initialization.
> +	 * If userland migrates such kthread to a non-root cgroup, it can
> +	 * become trapped in a cpuset, or RT kthread may be born in a
> +	 * cgroup with no rt_runtime allocated.  Just say no.
>  	 */
> -	if (tsk == kthreadd_task || (tsk->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY)) {
> +	if (tsk == kthreadd_task || (tsk->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY) ||
> +	    ((tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && !kthread_initialized(tsk))) {
>  		ret = -EINVAL;

...

> +bool kthread_initialized(struct task_struct *k)
> +{
> +	struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(k);
> +
> +	return kthread && test_bit(KTHREAD_INITIALIZED, &kthread->flags);
> +}

Not sure I understand...

With this patch you can no longer migrate a kernel thread created by
kernel_thread() ? Note that to_kthread() is NULL unless it was created
by kthread_create().

Oleg.

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[PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new kthreads  can be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 00:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new         kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 16:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new         kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new  kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 17:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new         kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 17:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new  kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new  kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 17:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new         kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 17:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] kthread, cgroup: close race window where new  kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2] cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can  be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 22:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] cgroup, kthread: close race window where new         kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-17 15:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads  can be migrated to non-root cgroups Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-03-17 15:50 +0100

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