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cgroups: if you list_empty() a head then don't list_del() it 

list_del() leaves poison in the prev and next pointers.  The next
list_empty() will compare those poisons, and say the list isn't empty.
Any list operations that assume the node is on a list because of such a
check will be fooled into dereferencing poison.  One needs to INIT the
node after the del, and fortunately there's already a wrapper for that -
list_del_init().

Some of the dels are followed by deallocations, so can be ignored, and one
can be merged with an add to make a move.  Apart from that, I erred on the
side of caution in making nodes list_empty()-queriable.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Phil Carmody 2011-03-22 16:30:13 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent edd45544c6
commit 8d2587970b
1 changed files with 6 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -1813,10 +1813,8 @@ int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk)
/* Update the css_set linked lists if we're using them */
write_lock(&css_set_lock);
if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) {
list_del(&tsk->cg_list);
list_add(&tsk->cg_list, &newcg->tasks);
}
if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list))
list_move(&tsk->cg_list, &newcg->tasks);
write_unlock(&css_set_lock);
for_each_subsys(root, ss) {
@ -3655,12 +3653,12 @@ again:
spin_lock(&release_list_lock);
set_bit(CGRP_REMOVED, &cgrp->flags);
if (!list_empty(&cgrp->release_list))
list_del(&cgrp->release_list);
list_del_init(&cgrp->release_list);
spin_unlock(&release_list_lock);
cgroup_lock_hierarchy(cgrp->root);
/* delete this cgroup from parent->children */
list_del(&cgrp->sibling);
list_del_init(&cgrp->sibling);
cgroup_unlock_hierarchy(cgrp->root);
d = dget(cgrp->dentry);
@ -3879,7 +3877,7 @@ void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
subsys[ss->subsys_id] = NULL;
/* remove subsystem from rootnode's list of subsystems */
list_del(&ss->sibling);
list_del_init(&ss->sibling);
/*
* disentangle the css from all css_sets attached to the dummytop. as
@ -4241,7 +4239,7 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int run_callbacks)
if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) {
write_lock(&css_set_lock);
if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list))
list_del(&tsk->cg_list);
list_del_init(&tsk->cg_list);
write_unlock(&css_set_lock);
}