Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:02:10 +0800 | From | Li Zefan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup->idr with cgroup_mutex |
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On 2014/2/12 14:37, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Li. > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:28:53PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: >> v2: >> - Don't call deactivate_super() inside cgroup_mutex, as cgroup_kill_sb() >> will be called if sb refcnt reaches 0. I don't think this can happen, >> as cgroup_create() is called through vfs, so vfs should guarantee the >> superblock won't disappear. Still better not depend on it even my guess >> is probably correct. > > If the deadlock can't actually happen, I don't really care either way > as the code goes away after kernfs conversion anyway. I've already > applied v1, so if you think this change is important, can you send an > incremental patch? >
I'm fine to stick with V1.
I'm pretty confident it's safe, as we can increment sb refcnt without any checking or locking (even cgroup_mutex as the comment says) in cgroup_create().
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