Patch "memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
memcg-add-rcu-locking-around-css_for_each_descendant_pre-in-memcg_offline_kmem.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 14:55:44 -0700
Subject: memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()

From: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>

commit 3a06bb78ceeceacc86a1e31133a7944013f9775b upstream.

memcg_offline_kmem() may be called from memcg_free_kmem() after a css init failure. memcg_free_kmem() is a ->css_free callback which is called without cgroup_mutex and memcg_offline_kmem() ends up using css_for_each_descendant_pre() without any locking. Fix it by adding rcu read locking around it.

    mkdir: cannot create directory `65530': No space left on device
    ===============================
    [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
    4.6.0-work+ #321 Not tainted
    -------------------------------
    kernel/cgroup.c:4008 cgroup_mutex or RCU read lock required!
     [  527.243970] other info that might help us debug this:
     [  527.244715]
    rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
    2 locks held by kworker/0:5/1664:
     #0:  ("cgroup_destroy"){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff81060ab5>] process_one_work+0x165/0x4a0
     #1:  ((&css->destroy_work)#3){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81060ab5>] process_one_work+0x165/0x4a0
     [  527.248098] stack backtrace:
    CPU: 0 PID: 1664 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 4.6.0-work+ #321
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.1-1.fc24 04/01/2014
    Workqueue: cgroup_destroy css_free_work_fn
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x68/0xa1
      lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd7/0x110
      css_next_descendant_pre+0x7d/0xb0
      memcg_offline_kmem.part.44+0x4a/0xc0
      mem_cgroup_css_free+0x1ec/0x200
      css_free_work_fn+0x49/0x5e0
      process_one_work+0x1c5/0x4a0
      worker_thread+0x49/0x490
      kthread+0xea/0x100
      ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -2877,6 +2877,7 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct me
 	 * ordering is imposed by list_lru_node->lock taken by
 	 * memcg_drain_all_list_lrus().
 	 */
+	rcu_read_lock(); /* can be called from css_free w/o cgroup_mutex */
 	css_for_each_descendant_pre(css, &memcg->css) {
 		child = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
 		BUG_ON(child->kmemcg_id != kmemcg_id);

@@ -2884,6 +2885,8 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct me
 		if (!memcg->use_hierarchy)
 			break;
 	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
 	memcg_drain_all_list_lrus(kmemcg_id, parent->kmemcg_id);
 
 	memcg_free_cache_id(kmemcg_id);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.6/memcg-add-rcu-locking-around-css_for_each_descendant_pre-in-memcg_offline_kmem.patch