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Linus Torvalds 11f00074f7 Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
   final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
   seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
   several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
   the kernel side. None held up.

   The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of
   zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which
   points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong.

   Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
   side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
   percpu_ref kill that drives ->css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
   depopulated.

   Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
   fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
   chain and rework on the development branch.

   Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
   cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via
   subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do
   the more invasive restructuring needed for that.

 - Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
   referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
   protocol was retired.

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
2026-05-05 15:43:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds de95ad90fb Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.

 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:

    - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept
      by global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task()
      state. Add a CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD flag to cgroup's task
      iterator (scx_task_iter is its only user) and use it.

    - Tasks past sched_ext_dead() are still returned, tripping
      WARN_ON_ONCE() in callers or making them touch torn-down state.
      Mark and skip under the per-task rq lock.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
  sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
  cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
2026-05-05 15:22:04 -07:00
Tejun Heo 60f21a2649 cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
a72f73c4dd ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made
css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent
with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter.

scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via
css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of
tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks
past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks.

scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting
SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking
__scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap.

Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from
scx_task_iter().

Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter")
Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-05-04 09:06:03 -10:00
Tejun Heo 93618edf75 cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
A chain of commits going back to v7.0 reworked rmdir to satisfy the
controller invariant that a subsystem's ->css_offline() must not run while
tasks are still doing kernel-side work in the cgroup.

[1] d245698d72 ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
[2] a72f73c4dd ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
[3] 1b164b876c ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
[4] 4c56a8ac68 ("cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition")
[5] 13e786b64b ("cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context")

[1] moved task cset unlink from do_exit() to finish_task_switch() so a
task's cset link drops only after the task has fully stopped scheduling.
That made tasks past exit_signals() linger on cset->tasks until their final
context switch, which led to a series of problems as what userspace expected
to see after rmdir diverged from what the kernel needs to wait for. [2]-[5]
tried to bridge that divergence: [2] filtered the exiting tasks from
cgroup.procs; [3] had rmdir(2) sleep in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for them; [4]
fixed the wait's condition; [5] made nr_dying_subsys_* visible
synchronously.

The cgroup_drain_dying() wait in [3] turned out to be a dead end. When the
rmdir caller is also the reaper of a zombie that pins a pidns teardown (e.g.
host PID 1 systemd reaping orphan pids that were re-parented to it during
the same teardown), rmdir blocks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE waiting for those
pids to free, the pids can't free because PID 1 is the reaper and it's stuck
in rmdir, and the system A-A deadlocks. No internal lock ordering breaks
this; the wait itself is the bug.

The css killing side that drove the original reorder, however, can be made
cleanly asynchronous: ->css_offline() is already async, run from
css_killed_work_fn() driven by percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(). The fix is to
make that chain start only after all tasks have left the cgroup. rmdir's
user-visible side then returns as soon as cgroup.procs and friends are
empty, while ->css_offline() still runs only after the cgroup is fully
drained.

Verified by the original reproducer (pidns teardown + zombie reaper, runs
under vng) which hangs vanilla and succeeds here, and by per-commit
deterministic repros for [2], [3], [4], [5] with a boot parameter that
widens the post-exit_signals() window so each state is reliably reachable.
Some stress tests on top of that.

cgroup_apply_control_disable() has the same shape of pre-existing race:
when a controller is disabled via subtree_control, kill_css() ran
synchronously while tasks past exit_signals() could still be linked to
the cgroup's csets, and ->css_offline() could fire before they drained.
This patch preserves the existing synchronous behavior at that call site
(kill_css_sync() + kill_css_finish() back-to-back) and a follow-up patch
will defer kill_css_finish() there using a per-css trigger.

This seems like the right approach and I don't see problems with it. The
changes are somewhat invasive but not excessively so, so backporting to
-stable should be okay. If something does turn out to be wrong, the fallback
is to revert the entire chain ([1]-[5]) and rework in the development branch
instead.

v2: Pin cgrp across the deferred destroy work with explicit
    cgroup_get()/cgroup_put() around queue_work() and the work_fn. v1
    wasn't actually broken (ordered cgroup_offline_wq + queue_work order
    in cgroup_task_dead() saved it) but the explicit ref removes the
    dependency on those non-obvious invariants. Also note the
    pre-existing cgroup_apply_control_disable() race in the description;
    a follow-up will defer kill_css_finish() there.

Fixes: 1b164b876c ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afHNg2VX2jy9bW7y@piware.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35e0670adb4abeab13da2c321582af9f@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2026-05-04 08:52:26 -10:00
Linus Torvalds 3b3bea6d4b Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix UAF race in psi pressure_write() against cgroup file release by
   extending cgroup_mutex coverage and ordering of->priv access after
   cgroup_kn_lock_live()

 - Fix integer overflow in rdmacg_try_charge() when usage equals INT_MAX
   by performing the increment in s64

 - Fix asymmetric DL bandwidth accounting on cpuset attach rollback by
   recording the CPU used by dl_bw_alloc() so cancel_attach() returns
   the reservation to the same root domain

 - Fix nr_dying_subsys_* race that briefly showed 0 in cgroup.stat after
   rmdir by incrementing from kill_css() instead of offline_css()

 - Typo fix in cgroup-v2 documentation

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup: fix typo 'protetion' -> 'protection'
  cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context
  cgroup/cpuset: record DL BW alloc CPU for attach rollback
  cgroup/rdma: fix integer overflow in rdmacg_try_charge()
  sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write
2026-04-27 16:51:27 -07:00
Petr MalatandTejun Heo 13e786b64b cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context
Incrementing nr_dying_subsys_* in offline_css(), which is executed by
cgroup_offline_wq worker, leads to a race where user can see the value
to be 0 if he reads cgroup.stat after calling rmdir and before the worker
executes. This makes the user wrongly expect resources released by the
removed cgroup to be available for a new assignment.

Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from kill_css(), which is called from the
cgroup_rmdir() context.

Fixes: ab03125268 ("cgroup: Show # of subsystem CSSes in cgroup.stat")
Signed-off-by: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-23 07:37:40 -10:00
Linus Torvalds 40735a683b Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song)

   Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a
   no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended
   period pointlessly consuming memory

 - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng)

   Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified
   during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series

 - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count"
   (Breno Leitao)

   Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string
   and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next
   kernel, and print it at boot time

 - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active
   sessions

 - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha
   Tatashin)

   Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and
   unregistration during module unloading

 - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar)

   Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and
   improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx
   resources

 - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and
   damon_walk()

 - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences

 - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential
   races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at
   the wrong time

 - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple)

   Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests

 - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan)

   Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code

 - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport)

   Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd

 - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu
   Hu)

   Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage
   when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels

 - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato)

   A couple of nice speedups for mprotect()

 - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav)

   Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo,
   kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are
   being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer
  mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
  MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO
  MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries
  mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
  selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall
  userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
  mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update
  mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
  zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store()
  docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
  mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions
  mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function
  mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
  mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment
  mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
  selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available
  ...
2026-04-19 08:01:17 -07:00
Qi ZhengandAndrew Morton 8285917d6f mm: memcontrol: prepare for reparenting non-hierarchical stats
To resolve the dying memcg issue, we need to reparent LRU folios of child
memcg to its parent memcg.  This could cause problems for non-hierarchical
stats.

As Yosry Ahmed pointed out:

In short, if memory is charged to a dying cgroup at the time of
reparenting, when the memory gets uncharged the stats updates will occur
at the parent. This will update both hierarchical and non-hierarchical
stats of the parent, which would corrupt the parent's non-hierarchical
stats (because those counters were never incremented when the memory was
charged).

Now we have the following two types of non-hierarchical stats, and they
are only used in CONFIG_MEMCG_V1:

a. memcg->vmstats->state_local[i]
b. pn->lruvec_stats->state_local[i]

To ensure that these non-hierarchical stats work properly, we need to
reparent these non-hierarchical stats after reparenting LRU folios. To
this end, this commit makes the following preparations:

1. implement reparent_state_local() to reparent non-hierarchical stats
2. make css_killed_work_fn() to be called in rcu work, and implement
   get_non_dying_memcg_start() and get_non_dying_memcg_end() to avoid race
   between mod_memcg_state()/mod_memcg_lruvec_state()
   and reparent_state_local()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e862995c45a7101a541284b6ebee5e5c32c89066.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Co-developed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-18 00:10:47 -07:00
Edward Adam DavisandTejun Heo a5b98009f1 sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write
A potential race condition exists between pressure write and cgroup file
release regarding the priv member of struct kernfs_open_file, which
triggers the uaf reported in [1].

Consider the following scenario involving execution on two separate CPUs:

   CPU0					CPU1
   ====					====
					vfs_rmdir()
					kernfs_iop_rmdir()
					cgroup_rmdir()
					cgroup_kn_lock_live()
					cgroup_destroy_locked()
					cgroup_addrm_files()
					cgroup_rm_file()
					kernfs_remove_by_name()
					kernfs_remove_by_name_ns()
 vfs_write()				__kernfs_remove()
 new_sync_write()			kernfs_drain()
 kernfs_fop_write_iter()		kernfs_drain_open_files()
 cgroup_file_write()			kernfs_release_file()
 pressure_write()			cgroup_file_release()
 ctx = of->priv;
					kfree(ctx);
 					of->priv = NULL;
					cgroup_kn_unlock()
 cgroup_kn_lock_live()
 cgroup_get(cgrp)
 cgroup_kn_unlock()
 if (ctx->psi.trigger)  // here, trigger uaf for ctx, that is of->priv

The cgroup_rmdir() is protected by the cgroup_mutex, it also safeguards
the memory deallocation of of->priv performed within cgroup_file_release().
However, the operations involving of->priv executed within pressure_write()
are not entirely covered by the protection of cgroup_mutex. Consequently,
if the code in pressure_write(), specifically the section handling the
ctx variable executes after cgroup_file_release() has completed, a uaf
vulnerability involving of->priv is triggered.

Therefore, the issue can be resolved by extending the scope of the
cgroup_mutex lock within pressure_write() to encompass all code paths
involving of->priv, thereby properly synchronizing the race condition
occurring between cgroup_file_release() and pressure_write().

And, if an live kn lock can be successfully acquired while executing
the pressure write operation, it indicates that the cgroup deletion
process has not yet reached its final stage; consequently, the priv
pointer within open_file cannot be NULL. Therefore, the operation to
retrieve the ctx value must be moved to a point *after* the live kn
lock has been successfully acquired.

In another situation, specifically after entering cgroup_kn_lock_live()
but before acquiring cgroup_mutex, there exists a different class of
race condition:

CPU0: write memory.pressure               CPU1: write cgroup.pressure=0
===========================		  =============================

kernfs_fop_write_iter()
 kernfs_get_active_of(of)
 pressure_write()
   cgroup_kn_lock_live(memory.pressure)
     cgroup_tryget(cgrp)
     kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
     ... blocks on cgroup_mutex

                                     	  cgroup_pressure_write()
                                     	  cgroup_kn_lock_live(cgroup.pressure)
                                     	  cgroup_file_show(memory.pressure, false)
                                     	    kernfs_show(false)
                                     	      kernfs_drain_open_files()
                                     	        cgroup_file_release(of)
                                     	          kfree(ctx)
                                     	            of->priv = NULL
                                     	  cgroup_kn_unlock()

   ... acquires cgroup_mutex
   ctx = of->priv;        // may now be NULL
   if (ctx->psi.trigger)  // NULL dereference

Consequently, there is a possibility that of->priv is NULL, the pressure
write needs to check for this.

Now that the scope of the cgroup_mutex has been expanded, the original
explicit cgroup_get/put operations are no longer necessary, this is
because acquiring/releasing the live kn lock inherently executes a
cgroup get/put operation.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
Call Trace:
 pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
 cgroup_file_write+0x36f/0x790 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4311
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b0/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:352

Allocated by task 9352:
 cgroup_file_open+0x90/0x3a0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4256
 kernfs_fop_open+0x9eb/0xcb0 fs/kernfs/file.c:724
 do_dentry_open+0x83d/0x13e0 fs/open.c:949

Freed by task 9353:
 cgroup_file_release+0xd6/0x100 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4283
 kernfs_release_file fs/kernfs/file.c:764 [inline]
 kernfs_drain_open_files+0x392/0x720 fs/kernfs/file.c:834
 kernfs_drain+0x470/0x600 fs/kernfs/dir.c:525

Fixes: 0e94682b73 ("psi: introduce psi monitor")
Reported-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33e571025d88efd1312c
Tested-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-04-17 07:25:09 -10:00
Linus Torvalds b71f0be2d2 Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cgroup_file_notify() locking converted from a global lock to
   per-cgroup_file spinlock with a lockless fast-path when no
   notification is needed

 - Misc changes including exposing cgroup helpers for sched_ext and
   minor fixes

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/rdma: fix swapped arguments in pr_warn() format string
  cgroup/dmem: remove region parameter from dmemcg_parse_limit
  cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
  cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
  cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
  cgroup: Expose some cgroup helpers
2026-04-15 10:18:49 -07:00
Tejun Heo 4c56a8ac68 cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition
cgroup_drain_dying() was using cgroup_is_populated() to test whether there are
dying tasks to wait for. cgroup_is_populated() tests nr_populated_csets,
nr_populated_domain_children and nr_populated_threaded_children, but
cgroup_drain_dying() only needs to care about this cgroup's own tasks - whether
there are children is cgroup_destroy_locked()'s concern.

This caused hangs during shutdown. When systemd tried to rmdir a cgroup that had
no direct tasks but had a populated child, cgroup_drain_dying() would enter its
wait loop because cgroup_is_populated() was true from
nr_populated_domain_children. The task iterator found nothing to wait for, yet
the populated state never cleared because it was driven by live tasks in the
child cgroup.

Fix it by using cgroup_has_tasks() which only tests nr_populated_csets.

v3: Fix cgroup_is_populated() -> cgroup_has_tasks() (Sebastian).

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323200205.1063629-1-tj@kernel.org

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 1b164b876c ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2026-03-25 14:08:04 -10:00
Tejun Heo 1b164b876c cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir
a72f73c4dd ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") hid PF_EXITING
tasks from cgroup.procs so that systemd doesn't see tasks that have already
been reaped via waitpid(). However, the populated counter (nr_populated_csets)
is only decremented when the task later passes through cgroup_task_dead() in
finish_task_switch(). This means cgroup.procs can appear empty while the
cgroup is still populated, causing rmdir to fail with -EBUSY.

Fix this by making cgroup_rmdir() wait for dying tasks to fully leave. If the
cgroup is populated but all remaining tasks have PF_EXITING set (the task
iterator returns none due to the existing filter), wait for a kick from
cgroup_task_dead() and retry. The wait is brief as tasks are removed from the
cgroup's css_set between PF_EXITING assertion in do_exit() and
cgroup_task_dead() in finish_task_switch().

v2: cgroup_is_populated() true to false transition happens under css_set_lock
    not cgroup_mutex, so retest under css_set_lock before sleeping to avoid
    missed wakeups (Sebastian).

Fixes: a72f73c4dd ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202603222104.2c81684e-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de>
Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
2026-03-24 10:21:40 -10:00
Shakeel ButtandTejun Heo 4ef420b345 cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
Replace the global cgroup_file_kn_lock with a per-cgroup_file spinlock
to eliminate cross-cgroup contention as it is not really protecting
data shared between different cgroups.

The lock is initialized in cgroup_add_file() alongside timer_setup().
No lock acquisition is needed during initialization since the cgroup
directory is being populated under cgroup_mutex and no concurrent
accessors exist at that point.

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-11 12:16:21 -10:00
Shakeel ButtandTejun Heo 4616120fca cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
Add lockless checks before acquiring cgroup_file_kn_lock:

1. READ_ONCE(cfile->kn) NULL check to skip torn-down files.
2. READ_ONCE(cfile->notified_at) rate-limit check to skip when
   within the notification interval.  If within the interval, arm
   the deferred timer via timer_reduce() and confirm it is pending
   before returning -- if the timer fired in between, fall through
   to the lock path so the notification is not lost.

Both checks have safe error directions -- a stale read can only
cause unnecessary lock acquisition, never a missed notification.

The critical section is simplified to just taking a kernfs_get()
reference and updating notified_at.

Annotate cfile->kn and cfile->notified_at write sites with
WRITE_ONCE() to pair with the lockless readers.

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-11 12:16:21 -10:00
Shakeel ButtandTejun Heo 05070cd654 cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
cgroup_file_notify() calls kernfs_notify() while holding the global
cgroup_file_kn_lock.  kernfs_notify() does non-trivial work including
wake_up_interruptible() and acquisition of a second global spinlock
(kernfs_notify_lock), inflating the hold time.

Take a kernfs_get() reference under the lock and call kernfs_notify()
after dropping it, following the pattern from cgroup_file_show().

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-11 12:16:21 -10:00
Sebastian Andrzej SiewiorandTejun Heo a72f73c4dd cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup
Once a task exits it has its state set to TASK_DEAD and then it is
removed from the cgroup it belonged to. The last step happens on the task
gets out of its last schedule() invocation and is delayed on PREEMPT_RT
due to locking constraints.

As a result it is possible to receive a pid via waitpid() of a task
which is still listed in cgroup.procs for the cgroup it belonged
to. This is something that systemd does not expect and as a result it
waits for its exit until a time out occurs.
This can also be reproduced on !PREEMPT_RT kernel with a significant
delay in do_exit() after exit_notify().

Hide the task from the output which have PF_EXITING set which is done
before the parent is notified. Keeping zombies with live threads
shouldn't break anything (suggested by Tejun).

Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219164648.3014-1-spasswolf@web.de/
Tested-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de>
Fixes: 9311e6c29b ("cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-06 12:43:25 -10:00
Tejun Heo 5b30afc20b cgroup: Expose some cgroup helpers
Expose the following through cgroup.h:

- cgroup_on_dfl()
- cgroup_is_dead()
- cgroup_for_each_live_child()
- cgroup_for_each_live_descendant_pre()
- cgroup_for_each_live_descendant_post()

Until now, these didn't need to be exposed because controllers only cared
about the css hierarchy. The planned sched_ext hierarchical scheduler
support will be based on the default cgroup hierarchy, which is in line
with the existing BPF cgroup support, and thus needs these exposed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-05 18:15:58 -10:00
Linus Torvalds 0031c06807 Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix circular locking dependency in cpuset partition code by
   deferring housekeeping_update() calls to a workqueue instead
   of calling them directly under cpus_read_lock

 - Fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked() when
   generate_sched_domains() returns NULL due to kmalloc failure

 - Fix incorrect cpuset behavior for effective_xcpus in
   partition_xcpus_del() and cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask()
   in update_cpumasks_hier()

 - Fix race between task migration and cgroup iteration

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/cpuset: fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked
  cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding cpus_read_lock
  cgroup/cpuset: Defer housekeeping_update() calls from CPU hotplug to workqueue
  cgroup/cpuset: Move housekeeping_update()/rebuild_sched_domains() together
  kselftest/cgroup: Simplify test_cpuset_prs.sh by removing "S+" command
  cgroup/cpuset: Set isolated_cpus_updating only if isolated_cpus is changed
  cgroup/cpuset: Clarify exclusion rules for cpuset internal variables
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect use of cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask() in update_cpumasks_hier()
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect change to effective_xcpus in partition_xcpus_del()
  cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration
2026-03-03 14:25:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 323bbfcf1e Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bf4afc53b7 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kees Cook 69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Qingye ZhaoandTejun Heo 5ee01f1a73 cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration
When a task is migrated out of a css_set, cgroup_migrate_add_task()
first moves it from cset->tasks to cset->mg_tasks via:

    list_move_tail(&task->cg_list, &cset->mg_tasks);

If a css_task_iter currently has it->task_pos pointing to this task,
css_set_move_task() calls css_task_iter_skip() to keep the iterator
valid. However, since the task has already been moved to ->mg_tasks,
the iterator is advanced relative to the mg_tasks list instead of the
original tasks list. As a result, remaining tasks on cset->tasks, as
well as tasks queued on cset->mg_tasks, can be skipped by iteration.

Fix this by calling css_set_skip_task_iters() before unlinking
task->cg_list from cset->tasks. This advances all active iterators to
the next task on cset->tasks, so iteration continues correctly even
when a task is concurrently being migrated.

This race is hard to hit in practice without instrumentation, but it
can be reproduced by artificially slowing down cgroup_procs_show().
For example, on an Android device a temporary
/sys/kernel/cgroup/cgroup_test knob can be added to inject a delay
into cgroup_procs_show(), and then:

  1) Spawn three long-running tasks (PIDs 101, 102, 103).
  2) Create a test cgroup and move the tasks into it.
  3) Enable a large delay via /sys/kernel/cgroup/cgroup_test.
  4) In one shell, read cgroup.procs from the test cgroup.
  5) Within the delay window, in another shell migrate PID 102 by
     writing it to a different cgroup.procs file.

Under this setup, cgroup.procs can intermittently show only PID 101
while skipping PID 103. Once the migration completes, reading the
file again shows all tasks as expected.

Note that this change does not allow removing the existing
css_set_skip_task_iters() call in css_set_move_task(). The new call
in cgroup_migrate_add_task() only handles iterators that are racing
with migration while the task is still on cset->tasks. Iterators may
also start after the task has been moved to cset->mg_tasks. If we
dropped css_set_skip_task_iters() from css_set_move_task(), such
iterators could keep task_pos pointing to a migrating task, causing
css_task_iter_advance() to malfunction on the destination css_set,
up to and including crashes or infinite loops.

The race window between migration and iteration is very small, and
css_task_iter is not on a hot path. In the worst case, when an
iterator is positioned on the first thread of the migrating process,
cgroup_migrate_add_task() may have to skip multiple tasks via
css_set_skip_task_iters(). However, this only happens when migration
and iteration actually race, so the performance impact is negligible
compared to the correctness fix provided here.

Fixes: b636fd38dc ("cgroup: Implement css_task_iter_skip()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: Qingye Zhao <zhaoqingye@honor.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-02-12 07:25:09 -10:00
Linus Torvalds ff661eeee2 Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cpuset changes:

    - Continue separating v1 and v2 implementations by moving more
      v1-specific logic into cpuset-v1.c

    - Improve partition handling. Sibling partitions are no longer
      invalidated on cpuset.cpus conflict, cpuset.cpus changes no longer
      fail in v2, and effective_xcpus computation is made consistent

    - Fix partition effective CPUs overlap that caused a warning on
      cpuset removal when sibling partitions shared CPUs

 - Increase the maximum cgroup subsystem count from 16 to 32 to
   accommodate future subsystem additions

 - Misc cleanups and selftest improvements including switching to
   css_is_online() helper, removing dead code and stale documentation
   references, using lockdep_assert_cpuset_lock_held() consistently, and
   adding polling helpers for asynchronously updated cgroup statistics

* tag 'cgroup-for-6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
  cpuset: fix overlap of partition effective CPUs
  cgroup: increase maximum subsystem count from 16 to 32
  cgroup: Remove stale cpu.rt.max reference from documentation
  cpuset: replace direct lockdep_assert_held() with lockdep_assert_cpuset_lock_held()
  cgroup/cpuset: Move the v1 empty cpus/mems check to cpuset1_validate_change()
  cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict
  cgroup/cpuset: Don't fail cpuset.cpus change in v2
  cgroup/cpuset: Consistently compute effective_xcpus in update_cpumasks_hier()
  cgroup/cpuset: Streamline rm_siblings_excl_cpus()
  cpuset: remove dead code in cpuset-v1.c
  cpuset: remove v1-specific code from generate_sched_domains
  cpuset: separate generate_sched_domains for v1 and v2
  cpuset: move update_domain_attr_tree to cpuset_v1.c
  cpuset: add cpuset1_init helper for v1 initialization
  cpuset: add cpuset1_online_css helper for v1-specific operations
  cpuset: add lockdep_assert_cpuset_lock_held helper
  cpuset: Remove unnecessary checks in rebuild_sched_domains_locked
  cgroup: switch to css_is_online() helper
  selftests: cgroup: Replace sleep with cg_read_key_long_poll() for waiting on nr_dying_descendants
  selftests: cgroup: make test_memcg_sock robust against delayed sock stats
  ...
2026-02-11 13:20:50 -08:00
Chen RidongandTejun Heo 5eab8c588b cgroup: increase maximum subsystem count from 16 to 32
The current cgroup subsystem limit of 16 is insufficient, as the number of
existing subsystems has already reached this limit. When adding a new
subsystem that is not yet in the mainline kernel, building with
`make allmodconfig` requires first bypassing the
`BUILD_BUG_ON(CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT > 16)` restriction to allow compilation
to succeed. However, the kernel still fails to boot afterward.

This patch increases the maximum number of supported cgroup subsystems from
16 to 32, providing enough room for future subsystem additions.

Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-02-01 06:34:15 -10:00
Tim BirdandTejun Heo a1b3421a02 kernel: cgroup: Add SPDX-License-Identifier lines
Add GPL-2.0 SPDX license id lines to a few old
files, replacing the reference to the COPYING file.

The COPYING file at the time of creation of these files
(2007 and 2005) was GPL-v2.0, with an additional clause
indicating that only v2 applied.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-01-15 22:03:09 -10:00