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cgroups: don't attach task to subsystem if migration failed
authorBen Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:54 +0000 (10:50 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:53:44 +0000 (14:53 +1000)
commit7aa1ae7d827cb4acbc8eb4af96e50607c1bd0af2
tree4dd72ee20327cf48c10f933fd8414dff9895a06b
parentba20d04b6d1f88bf7ce526082df0e988f6d67548
cgroups: don't attach task to subsystem if migration failed

If a task has exited to the point it has called cgroup_exit() already,
then we can't migrate it to another cgroup anymore.

This can happen when we are attaching a task to a new cgroup between the
call to ->can_attach_task() on subsystems and the migration that is
eventually tried in cgroup_task_migrate().

In this case cgroup_task_migrate() returns -ESRCH and we don't want to
attach the task to the subsystems because the attachment to the new cgroup
itself failed.

Fix this by only calling ->attach_task() on the subsystems if the cgroup
migration succeeded.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
kernel/cgroup.c