5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Chen Ridong chenridong@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit 79f919a89c9d06816dbdbbd168fa41d27411a7f9 ]
A hung task can occur during [1] LTP cgroup testing when repeatedly mounting/unmounting perf_event and net_prio controllers with systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1. The hang manifests in cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline() during root destruction.
Related case: cgroup_fj_function_perf_event cgroup_fj_function.sh perf_event cgroup_fj_function_net_prio cgroup_fj_function.sh net_prio
Call Trace: cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline+0x14c/0x1e8 cgroup_destroy_root+0x3c/0x2c0 css_free_rwork_fn+0x248/0x338 process_one_work+0x16c/0x3b8 worker_thread+0x22c/0x3b0 kthread+0xec/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Root Cause:
CPU0 CPU1 mount perf_event umount net_prio cgroup1_get_tree cgroup_kill_sb rebind_subsystems // root destruction enqueues // cgroup_destroy_wq // kill all perf_event css // one perf_event css A is dying // css A offline enqueues cgroup_destroy_wq // root destruction will be executed first css_free_rwork_fn cgroup_destroy_root cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline // some perf descendants are dying // cgroup_destroy_wq max_active = 1 // waiting for css A to die
Problem scenario: 1. CPU0 mounts perf_event (rebind_subsystems) 2. CPU1 unmounts net_prio (cgroup_kill_sb), queuing root destruction work 3. A dying perf_event CSS gets queued for offline after root destruction 4. Root destruction waits for offline completion, but offline work is blocked behind root destruction in cgroup_destroy_wq (max_active=1)
Solution: Split cgroup_destroy_wq into three dedicated workqueues: cgroup_offline_wq – Handles CSS offline operations cgroup_release_wq – Manages resource release cgroup_free_wq – Performs final memory deallocation
This separation eliminates blocking in the CSS free path while waiting for offline operations to complete.
[1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/runtest/controllers Fixes: 334c3679ec4b ("cgroup: reimplement rebind_subsystems() using cgroup_apply_control() and friends") Reported-by: Gao Yingjie gaoyingjie@uniontech.com Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong chenridong@huawei.com Suggested-by: Teju Heo tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 801022a8899b5..b761d70eccbf4 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -114,8 +114,31 @@ DEFINE_PERCPU_RWSEM(cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem); * of concurrent destructions. Use a separate workqueue so that cgroup * destruction work items don't end up filling up max_active of system_wq * which may lead to deadlock. + * + * A cgroup destruction should enqueue work sequentially to: + * cgroup_offline_wq: use for css offline work + * cgroup_release_wq: use for css release work + * cgroup_free_wq: use for free work + * + * Rationale for using separate workqueues: + * The cgroup root free work may depend on completion of other css offline + * operations. If all tasks were enqueued to a single workqueue, this could + * create a deadlock scenario where: + * - Free work waits for other css offline work to complete. + * - But other css offline work is queued after free work in the same queue. + * + * Example deadlock scenario with single workqueue (cgroup_destroy_wq): + * 1. umount net_prio + * 2. net_prio root destruction enqueues work to cgroup_destroy_wq (CPUx) + * 3. perf_event CSS A offline enqueues work to same cgroup_destroy_wq (CPUx) + * 4. net_prio cgroup_destroy_root->cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline. + * 5. net_prio root destruction blocks waiting for perf_event CSS A offline, + * which can never complete as it's behind in the same queue and + * workqueue's max_active is 1. */ -static struct workqueue_struct *cgroup_destroy_wq; +static struct workqueue_struct *cgroup_offline_wq; +static struct workqueue_struct *cgroup_release_wq; +static struct workqueue_struct *cgroup_free_wq;
/* generate an array of cgroup subsystem pointers */ #define SUBSYS(_x) [_x ## _cgrp_id] = &_x ## _cgrp_subsys, @@ -5233,7 +5256,7 @@ static void css_release_work_fn(struct work_struct *work) mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
INIT_RCU_WORK(&css->destroy_rwork, css_free_rwork_fn); - queue_rcu_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_rwork); + queue_rcu_work(cgroup_free_wq, &css->destroy_rwork); }
static void css_release(struct percpu_ref *ref) @@ -5242,7 +5265,7 @@ static void css_release(struct percpu_ref *ref) container_of(ref, struct cgroup_subsys_state, refcnt);
INIT_WORK(&css->destroy_work, css_release_work_fn); - queue_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_work); + queue_work(cgroup_release_wq, &css->destroy_work); }
static void init_and_link_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, @@ -5373,7 +5396,7 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_create(struct cgroup *cgrp, err_free_css: list_del_rcu(&css->rstat_css_node); INIT_RCU_WORK(&css->destroy_rwork, css_free_rwork_fn); - queue_rcu_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_rwork); + queue_rcu_work(cgroup_free_wq, &css->destroy_rwork); return ERR_PTR(err); }
@@ -5626,7 +5649,7 @@ static void css_killed_ref_fn(struct percpu_ref *ref)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&css->online_cnt)) { INIT_WORK(&css->destroy_work, css_killed_work_fn); - queue_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_work); + queue_work(cgroup_offline_wq, &css->destroy_work); } }
@@ -6002,8 +6025,14 @@ static int __init cgroup_wq_init(void) * We would prefer to do this in cgroup_init() above, but that * is called before init_workqueues(): so leave this until after. */ - cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0, 1); - BUG_ON(!cgroup_destroy_wq); + cgroup_offline_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_offline", 0, 1); + BUG_ON(!cgroup_offline_wq); + + cgroup_release_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_release", 0, 1); + BUG_ON(!cgroup_release_wq); + + cgroup_free_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_free", 0, 1); + BUG_ON(!cgroup_free_wq); return 0; } core_initcall(cgroup_wq_init);