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    cgroup: fix rmdir EBUSY regression in 3.11 · bb78a92f
    Hugh Dickins authored
    On 3.11-rc we are seeing cgroup directories left behind when they should
    have been removed.  Here's a trivial reproducer:
    
    cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
    mkdir parent parent/child; rmdir parent/child parent
    rmdir: failed to remove `parent': Device or resource busy
    
    It's because cgroup_destroy_locked() (step 1 of destruction) leaves
    cgroup on parent's children list, letting cgroup_offline_fn() (step 2 of
    destruction) remove it; but step 2 is run by work queue, which may not
    yet have removed the children when parent destruction checks the list.
    
    Fix that by checking through a non-empty list of children: if every one
    of them has already been marked CGRP_DEAD, then it's safe to proceed:
    those children are invisible to userspace, and should not obstruct rmdir.
    
    (I didn't see any reason to keep the cgrp->children checks under the
    unrelated css_set_lock, so moved them out.)
    
    tj: Flattened nested ifs a bit and updated comment so that it's
        correct on both for-3.11-fixes and for-3.12.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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