cgroup_freezer: fix can_attach() to prohibit moving from/to freezing/frozen cgroups

It is possible to move a task from its cgroup even if this group is
'FREEZING'.  This results in a nasty bug - the moved task will become
frozen OUTSIDE its original cgroup and will remain in a permanent 'D'
state.

This patch allows to migrate the task only between THAWED cgroups.

This behavior was observed and easily reproduced on a single core laptop.
Notice that reproducibility depends highly on the machine used.  Program
and instructions how to reproduce the bug can be fetched from:
http://pentium.hopto.org/~thinred/repos/linux-misc/freezer_bug.c

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
index 321e2a0..c287627 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
@@ -173,24 +173,25 @@ static int freezer_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
 
 	/*
 	 * Anything frozen can't move or be moved to/from.
-	 *
-	 * Since orig_freezer->state == FROZEN means that @task has been
-	 * frozen, so it's sufficient to check the latter condition.
 	 */
 
-	if (is_task_frozen_enough(task))
+	freezer = cgroup_freezer(new_cgroup);
+	if (freezer->state != CGROUP_THAWED)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-	freezer = cgroup_freezer(new_cgroup);
-	if (freezer->state == CGROUP_FROZEN)
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	if (__cgroup_freezing_or_frozen(task)) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return -EBUSY;
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (threadgroup) {
 		struct task_struct *c;
 
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		list_for_each_entry_rcu(c, &task->thread_group, thread_group) {
-			if (is_task_frozen_enough(c)) {
+			if (__cgroup_freezing_or_frozen(c)) {
 				rcu_read_unlock();
 				return -EBUSY;
 			}