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-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c21
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 50b94113f4f7..bf30076664ca 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4396,6 +4396,15 @@ static void css_release_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
/* cgroup release path */
cgroup_idr_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_idr, cgrp->id);
cgrp->id = -1;
+
+ /*
+ * There are two control paths which try to determine
+ * cgroup from dentry without going through kernfs -
+ * cgroupstats_build() and css_tryget_online_from_dir().
+ * Those are supported by RCU protecting clearing of
+ * cgrp->kn->priv backpointer.
+ */
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(*(void __rcu __force **)&cgrp->kn->priv, NULL);
}
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
@@ -4834,16 +4843,6 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct kernfs_node *kn)
cgroup_kn_unlock(kn);
- /*
- * There are two control paths which try to determine cgroup from
- * dentry without going through kernfs - cgroupstats_build() and
- * css_tryget_online_from_dir(). Those are supported by RCU
- * protecting clearing of cgrp->kn->priv backpointer, which should
- * happen after all files under it have been removed.
- */
- if (!ret)
- RCU_INIT_POINTER(*(void __rcu __force **)&kn->priv, NULL);
-
cgroup_put(cgrp);
return ret;
}
@@ -5430,7 +5429,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_tryget_online_from_dir(struct dentry *dentry,
/*
* This path doesn't originate from kernfs and @kn could already
* have been or be removed at any point. @kn->priv is RCU
- * protected for this access. See cgroup_rmdir() for details.
+ * protected for this access. See css_release_work_fn() for details.
*/
cgrp = rcu_dereference(kn->priv);
if (cgrp)