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<title>cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition</title>
<updated>2026-03-26T00:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-03-25T17:23:48+00:00</published>
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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() -&gt; cgroup_has_tasks() (Sebastian).

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

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
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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() -&gt; cgroup_has_tasks() (Sebastian).

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

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
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<title>cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir</title>
<updated>2026-03-24T20:21:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-03-24T20:21:25+00:00</published>
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a72f73c4dd9b ("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: a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202603222104.2c81684e-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Bert Karwatzki &lt;spasswolf@web.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutny &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
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a72f73c4dd9b ("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: a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202603222104.2c81684e-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Bert Karwatzki &lt;spasswolf@web.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutny &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T22:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-06T19:22:35+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;spasswolf@web.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219164648.3014-1-spasswolf@web.de/
Tested-by: Bert Karwatzki &lt;spasswolf@web.de&gt;
Fixes: 9311e6c29b34 ("cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;spasswolf@web.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219164648.3014-1-spasswolf@web.de/
Tested-by: Bert Karwatzki &lt;spasswolf@web.de&gt;
Fixes: 9311e6c29b34 ("cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T22:25:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-03T22:25:18+00:00</published>
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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
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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
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;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 &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;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 &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T17:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qingye Zhao</name>
<email>zhaoqingye@honor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T09:24:04+00:00</published>
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When a task is migrated out of a css_set, cgroup_migrate_add_task()
first moves it from cset-&gt;tasks to cset-&gt;mg_tasks via:

    list_move_tail(&amp;task-&gt;cg_list, &amp;cset-&gt;mg_tasks);

If a css_task_iter currently has it-&gt;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 -&gt;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-&gt;tasks, as
well as tasks queued on cset-&gt;mg_tasks, can be skipped by iteration.

Fix this by calling css_set_skip_task_iters() before unlinking
task-&gt;cg_list from cset-&gt;tasks. This advances all active iterators to
the next task on cset-&gt;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-&gt;tasks. Iterators may
also start after the task has been moved to cset-&gt;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: b636fd38dc40 ("cgroup: Implement css_task_iter_skip()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: Qingye Zhao &lt;zhaoqingye@honor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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When a task is migrated out of a css_set, cgroup_migrate_add_task()
first moves it from cset-&gt;tasks to cset-&gt;mg_tasks via:

    list_move_tail(&amp;task-&gt;cg_list, &amp;cset-&gt;mg_tasks);

If a css_task_iter currently has it-&gt;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 -&gt;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-&gt;tasks, as
well as tasks queued on cset-&gt;mg_tasks, can be skipped by iteration.

Fix this by calling css_set_skip_task_iters() before unlinking
task-&gt;cg_list from cset-&gt;tasks. This advances all active iterators to
the next task on cset-&gt;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-&gt;tasks. Iterators may
also start after the task has been moved to cset-&gt;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: b636fd38dc40 ("cgroup: Implement css_task_iter_skip()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: Qingye Zhao &lt;zhaoqingye@honor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T21:20:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T21:20:50+00:00</published>
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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
  ...
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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
  ...
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<entry>
<title>cgroup: increase maximum subsystem count from 16 to 32</title>
<updated>2026-02-01T16:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Ridong</name>
<email>chenridong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-31T03:05:09+00:00</published>
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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 &gt; 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 &lt;chenridong@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: JP Kobryn &lt;inwardvessel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: JP Kobryn &lt;inwardvessel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &gt; 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 &lt;chenridong@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: JP Kobryn &lt;inwardvessel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: JP Kobryn &lt;inwardvessel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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