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<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-05-13T21:56:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-13T21:56:31+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - cpuset fixes:
     - Partition invalidation could return CPUs still in use by sibling
       partitions, producing overlapping effective_cpus
     - cpuset_can_attach() over-reserved DL bandwidth on moves that
       stayed within the same root domain
     - Pending DL migration state leaked into later attaches when a
       later can_attach() check failed
     - Reorder PF_EXITING and __GFP_HARDWALL checks so dying tasks can
       allocate from any node and exit quickly

 - dmem: propagate -ENOMEM instead of spinning forever when the fallback
   pool allocation also fails

 - selftests/cgroup: percpu test error-path leak, bogus numeric
   comparison of cpuset strings, and a zero-length read() that silently
   passed OOM-kill tests

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/cpuset: Return only actually allocated CPUs during partition invalidation
  selftests/cgroup: Fix error path leaks in test_percpu_basic
  cgroup/cpuset: Reserve DL bandwidth only for root-domain moves
  cgroup/cpuset: Reset DL migration state on can_attach() failure
  selftests/cgroup: Fix string comparison in write_test
  selftests/cgroup: Fix cg_read_strcmp() empty string comparison
  cgroup/dmem: Return -ENOMEM on failed pool preallocation
  cgroup/cpuset: move PF_EXITING check before __GFP_HARDWALL in cpuset_current_node_allowed()
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - cpuset fixes:
     - Partition invalidation could return CPUs still in use by sibling
       partitions, producing overlapping effective_cpus
     - cpuset_can_attach() over-reserved DL bandwidth on moves that
       stayed within the same root domain
     - Pending DL migration state leaked into later attaches when a
       later can_attach() check failed
     - Reorder PF_EXITING and __GFP_HARDWALL checks so dying tasks can
       allocate from any node and exit quickly

 - dmem: propagate -ENOMEM instead of spinning forever when the fallback
   pool allocation also fails

 - selftests/cgroup: percpu test error-path leak, bogus numeric
   comparison of cpuset strings, and a zero-length read() that silently
   passed OOM-kill tests

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/cpuset: Return only actually allocated CPUs during partition invalidation
  selftests/cgroup: Fix error path leaks in test_percpu_basic
  cgroup/cpuset: Reserve DL bandwidth only for root-domain moves
  cgroup/cpuset: Reset DL migration state on can_attach() failure
  selftests/cgroup: Fix string comparison in write_test
  selftests/cgroup: Fix cg_read_strcmp() empty string comparison
  cgroup/dmem: Return -ENOMEM on failed pool preallocation
  cgroup/cpuset: move PF_EXITING check before __GFP_HARDWALL in cpuset_current_node_allowed()
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<title>cgroup/cpuset: Return only actually allocated CPUs during partition invalidation</title>
<updated>2026-05-13T18:54:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>sunshaojie</name>
<email>sunshaojie@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-13T10:37:38+00:00</published>
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In update_parent_effective_cpumask() with partcmd_invalidate, the CPUs
to return to the parent are computed as:

    adding = cpumask_and(tmp-&gt;addmask, xcpus, parent-&gt;effective_xcpus);

where xcpus = user_xcpus(cs) which returns cs-&gt;exclusive_cpus (if set)
or cs-&gt;cpus_allowed. When exclusive_cpus is not set, user_xcpus(cs) can
contain CPUs that were never actually granted to the partition due to
sibling exclusion in compute_excpus(). Consequently, the invalidation
may return CPUs to the parent that remain in use by sibling partitions,
causing overlapping effective_cpus and triggering the
WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in generate_sched_domains().

Use cs-&gt;effective_xcpus instead, which reflects the CPUs actually
granted to this partition.

Reproducer (on a 4-CPU machine):

    cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    mkdir a1 b1

    # a1 becomes partition root with CPUs 0-1
    echo "0-1" &gt; a1/cpuset.cpus
    echo "root" &gt; a1/cpuset.cpus.partition

    # b1 becomes partition root with CPUs 1-2, but sibling exclusion
    # reduces its effective_xcpus to CPU 2 only
    echo "1-2" &gt; b1/cpuset.cpus
    echo "root" &gt; b1/cpuset.cpus.partition

    # b1 changes cpus_allowed to 0-1 -&gt; partition invalidation
    echo "0-1" &gt; b1/cpuset.cpus

    # Expected: CPUs 2-3  (only CPU 2 returned from b1)
    # Actual:   CPUs 1-3  (CPU 0-1 returned, overlapping with a1)
    cat cpuset.cpus.effective

dmesg will also show a WARNING from generate_sched_domains() reporting
overlapping partition root effective_cpus.

Fixes: 2a3602030d80 ("cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Signed-off-by: sunshaojie &lt;sunshaojie@kylinos.cn&gt;
Tested-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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In update_parent_effective_cpumask() with partcmd_invalidate, the CPUs
to return to the parent are computed as:

    adding = cpumask_and(tmp-&gt;addmask, xcpus, parent-&gt;effective_xcpus);

where xcpus = user_xcpus(cs) which returns cs-&gt;exclusive_cpus (if set)
or cs-&gt;cpus_allowed. When exclusive_cpus is not set, user_xcpus(cs) can
contain CPUs that were never actually granted to the partition due to
sibling exclusion in compute_excpus(). Consequently, the invalidation
may return CPUs to the parent that remain in use by sibling partitions,
causing overlapping effective_cpus and triggering the
WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in generate_sched_domains().

Use cs-&gt;effective_xcpus instead, which reflects the CPUs actually
granted to this partition.

Reproducer (on a 4-CPU machine):

    cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    mkdir a1 b1

    # a1 becomes partition root with CPUs 0-1
    echo "0-1" &gt; a1/cpuset.cpus
    echo "root" &gt; a1/cpuset.cpus.partition

    # b1 becomes partition root with CPUs 1-2, but sibling exclusion
    # reduces its effective_xcpus to CPU 2 only
    echo "1-2" &gt; b1/cpuset.cpus
    echo "root" &gt; b1/cpuset.cpus.partition

    # b1 changes cpus_allowed to 0-1 -&gt; partition invalidation
    echo "0-1" &gt; b1/cpuset.cpus

    # Expected: CPUs 2-3  (only CPU 2 returned from b1)
    # Actual:   CPUs 1-3  (CPU 0-1 returned, overlapping with a1)
    cat cpuset.cpus.effective

dmesg will also show a WARNING from generate_sched_domains() reporting
overlapping partition root effective_cpus.

Fixes: 2a3602030d80 ("cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Signed-off-by: sunshaojie &lt;sunshaojie@kylinos.cn&gt;
Tested-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>cgroup/cpuset: Reserve DL bandwidth only for root-domain moves</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T20:27:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guopeng Zhang</name>
<email>zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-09T10:20:31+00:00</published>
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cpuset_can_attach() currently adds the bandwidth of all migrating
SCHED_DEADLINE tasks to sum_migrate_dl_bw. If the source and destination
cpuset effective CPU masks do not overlap, the whole sum is then
reserved in the destination root domain.

set_cpus_allowed_dl(), however, subtracts bandwidth from the source
root domain only when the affinity change really moves the task between
root domains. A DL task can move between cpusets that are still in the
same root domain, so including that task in sum_migrate_dl_bw can reserve
destination bandwidth without a matching source-side subtraction.

Share the root-domain move test with set_cpus_allowed_dl(). Keep
nr_migrate_dl_tasks counting all migrating deadline tasks for cpuset DL
task accounting, but add to sum_migrate_dl_bw only for tasks that need a
root-domain bandwidth move. Keep using the destination cpuset effective
CPU mask and leave the broader can_attach()/attach() transaction model
unchanged.

Fixes: 2ef269ef1ac0 ("cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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cpuset_can_attach() currently adds the bandwidth of all migrating
SCHED_DEADLINE tasks to sum_migrate_dl_bw. If the source and destination
cpuset effective CPU masks do not overlap, the whole sum is then
reserved in the destination root domain.

set_cpus_allowed_dl(), however, subtracts bandwidth from the source
root domain only when the affinity change really moves the task between
root domains. A DL task can move between cpusets that are still in the
same root domain, so including that task in sum_migrate_dl_bw can reserve
destination bandwidth without a matching source-side subtraction.

Share the root-domain move test with set_cpus_allowed_dl(). Keep
nr_migrate_dl_tasks counting all migrating deadline tasks for cpuset DL
task accounting, but add to sum_migrate_dl_bw only for tasks that need a
root-domain bandwidth move. Keep using the destination cpuset effective
CPU mask and leave the broader can_attach()/attach() transaction model
unchanged.

Fixes: 2ef269ef1ac0 ("cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>cgroup/cpuset: Reset DL migration state on can_attach() failure</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T08:14:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guopeng Zhang</name>
<email>zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-09T10:20:30+00:00</published>
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cpuset_can_attach() accumulates temporary SCHED_DEADLINE migration
state in the destination cpuset while walking the taskset.

If a later task_can_attach() or security_task_setscheduler() check
fails, cgroup_migrate_execute() treats cpuset as the failing subsystem
and does not call cpuset_cancel_attach() for it. The partially
accumulated state is then left behind and can be consumed by a later
attach, corrupting cpuset DL task accounting and pending DL bandwidth
accounting.

Reset the pending DL migration state from the common error exit when
ret is non-zero. Successful can_attach() keeps the state for
cpuset_attach() or cpuset_cancel_attach().

Fixes: 2ef269ef1ac0 ("cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
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cpuset_can_attach() accumulates temporary SCHED_DEADLINE migration
state in the destination cpuset while walking the taskset.

If a later task_can_attach() or security_task_setscheduler() check
fails, cgroup_migrate_execute() treats cpuset as the failing subsystem
and does not call cpuset_cancel_attach() for it. The partially
accumulated state is then left behind and can be consumed by a later
attach, corrupting cpuset DL task accounting and pending DL bandwidth
accounting.

Reset the pending DL migration state from the common error exit when
ret is non-zero. Successful can_attach() keeps the state for
cpuset_attach() or cpuset_cancel_attach().

Fixes: 2ef269ef1ac0 ("cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>cgroup/dmem: Return -ENOMEM on failed pool preallocation</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T01:43:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guopeng Zhang</name>
<email>zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T01:31:50+00:00</published>
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get_cg_pool_unlocked() handles allocation failures under dmemcg_lock by
dropping the lock, preallocating a pool with GFP_KERNEL, and retrying the
locked lookup and creation path.

If the fallback allocation fails too, pool remains NULL. Since the loop
condition is while (!pool), the function can keep retrying instead of
propagating the allocation failure to the caller.

Set pool to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) when the fallback allocation fails so the
loop exits through the existing common return path. The callers already
handle ERR_PTR() from get_cg_pool_unlocked(), so this restores the
expected error path.

Fixes: b168ed458dde ("kernel/cgroup: Add "dmem" memory accounting cgroup")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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get_cg_pool_unlocked() handles allocation failures under dmemcg_lock by
dropping the lock, preallocating a pool with GFP_KERNEL, and retrying the
locked lookup and creation path.

If the fallback allocation fails too, pool remains NULL. Since the loop
condition is while (!pool), the function can keep retrying instead of
propagating the allocation failure to the caller.

Set pool to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) when the fallback allocation fails so the
loop exits through the existing common return path. The callers already
handle ERR_PTR() from get_cg_pool_unlocked(), so this restores the
expected error path.

Fixes: b168ed458dde ("kernel/cgroup: Add "dmem" memory accounting cgroup")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14+
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cgroup/cpuset: move PF_EXITING check before __GFP_HARDWALL in cpuset_current_node_allowed()</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T21:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Wandun</name>
<email>chenwandun@lixiang.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-07T10:54:34+00:00</published>
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Since prepare_alloc_pages() unconditionally adds __GFP_HARDWALL for the
fast path when cpusets are enabled, the __GFP_HARDWALL check in
cpuset_current_node_allowed() causes the PF_EXITING escape path to be
skipped on the first allocation attempt.  This makes it unreachable in
the common case, so dying tasks can get stuck in direct reclaim or even
trigger OOM while trying to exit, despite being allowed to allocate from
any node.

Move the PF_EXITING check before __GFP_HARDWALL so that dying tasks
can allocate memory from any node to exit quickly, even when cpusets
are enabled.

Also update the function comment to reflect the actual behavior of
prepare_alloc_pages() and the corrected check ordering.

Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun &lt;chenwandun@lixiang.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Since prepare_alloc_pages() unconditionally adds __GFP_HARDWALL for the
fast path when cpusets are enabled, the __GFP_HARDWALL check in
cpuset_current_node_allowed() causes the PF_EXITING escape path to be
skipped on the first allocation attempt.  This makes it unreachable in
the common case, so dying tasks can get stuck in direct reclaim or even
trigger OOM while trying to exit, despite being allowed to allocate from
any node.

Move the PF_EXITING check before __GFP_HARDWALL so that dying tasks
can allocate memory from any node to exit quickly, even when cpusets
are enabled.

Also update the function comment to reflect the actual behavior of
prepare_alloc_pages() and the corrected check ordering.

Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun &lt;chenwandun@lixiang.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-05-05T22:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T22:43:32+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
   final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
   seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
   several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
   the kernel side. None held up.

   The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of
   zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which
   points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong.

   Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
   side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
   percpu_ref kill that drives -&gt;css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
   depopulated.

   Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
   fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
   chain and rework on the development branch.

   Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
   cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via
   subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do
   the more invasive restructuring needed for that.

 - Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
   referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
   protocol was retired.

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
   final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
   seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
   several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
   the kernel side. None held up.

   The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of
   zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which
   points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong.

   Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
   side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
   percpu_ref kill that drives -&gt;css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
   depopulated.

   Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
   fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
   chain and rework on the development branch.

   Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
   cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via
   subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do
   the more invasive restructuring needed for that.

 - Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
   referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
   protocol was retired.

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext</title>
<updated>2026-05-05T22:22:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T22:22:04+00:00</published>
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Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.

 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:

    - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept
      by global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task()
      state. Add a CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD flag to cgroup's task
      iterator (scx_task_iter is its only user) and use it.

    - Tasks past sched_ext_dead() are still returned, tripping
      WARN_ON_ONCE() in callers or making them touch torn-down state.
      Mark and skip under the per-task rq lock.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
  sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
  cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
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Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.

 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:

    - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept
      by global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task()
      state. Add a CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD flag to cgroup's task
      iterator (scx_task_iter is its only user) and use it.

    - Tasks past sched_ext_dead() are still returned, tripping
      WARN_ON_ONCE() in callers or making them touch torn-down state.
      Mark and skip under the per-task rq lock.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
  sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
  cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
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<title>cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T19:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-04-28T00:16:34+00:00</published>
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a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made
css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent
with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter.

scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via
css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of
tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks
past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks.

scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting
SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking
__scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap.

Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from
scx_task_iter().

Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0f0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter")
Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou &lt;yphbchou0911@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made
css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent
with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter.

scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via
css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of
tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks
past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks.

scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting
SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking
__scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap.

Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from
scx_task_iter().

Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0f0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter")
Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou &lt;yphbchou0911@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T18:52:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-01T18:31:22+00:00</published>
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A chain of commits going back to v7.0 reworked rmdir to satisfy the
controller invariant that a subsystem's -&gt;css_offline() must not run while
tasks are still doing kernel-side work in the cgroup.

[1] d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
[2] a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
[3] 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
[4] 4c56a8ac6869 ("cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition")
[5] 13e786b64bd3 ("cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context")

[1] moved task cset unlink from do_exit() to finish_task_switch() so a
task's cset link drops only after the task has fully stopped scheduling.
That made tasks past exit_signals() linger on cset-&gt;tasks until their final
context switch, which led to a series of problems as what userspace expected
to see after rmdir diverged from what the kernel needs to wait for. [2]-[5]
tried to bridge that divergence: [2] filtered the exiting tasks from
cgroup.procs; [3] had rmdir(2) sleep in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for them; [4]
fixed the wait's condition; [5] made nr_dying_subsys_* visible
synchronously.

The cgroup_drain_dying() wait in [3] turned out to be a dead end. When the
rmdir caller is also the reaper of a zombie that pins a pidns teardown (e.g.
host PID 1 systemd reaping orphan pids that were re-parented to it during
the same teardown), rmdir blocks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE waiting for those
pids to free, the pids can't free because PID 1 is the reaper and it's stuck
in rmdir, and the system A-A deadlocks. No internal lock ordering breaks
this; the wait itself is the bug.

The css killing side that drove the original reorder, however, can be made
cleanly asynchronous: -&gt;css_offline() is already async, run from
css_killed_work_fn() driven by percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(). The fix is to
make that chain start only after all tasks have left the cgroup. rmdir's
user-visible side then returns as soon as cgroup.procs and friends are
empty, while -&gt;css_offline() still runs only after the cgroup is fully
drained.

Verified by the original reproducer (pidns teardown + zombie reaper, runs
under vng) which hangs vanilla and succeeds here, and by per-commit
deterministic repros for [2], [3], [4], [5] with a boot parameter that
widens the post-exit_signals() window so each state is reliably reachable.
Some stress tests on top of that.

cgroup_apply_control_disable() has the same shape of pre-existing race:
when a controller is disabled via subtree_control, kill_css() ran
synchronously while tasks past exit_signals() could still be linked to
the cgroup's csets, and -&gt;css_offline() could fire before they drained.
This patch preserves the existing synchronous behavior at that call site
(kill_css_sync() + kill_css_finish() back-to-back) and a follow-up patch
will defer kill_css_finish() there using a per-css trigger.

This seems like the right approach and I don't see problems with it. The
changes are somewhat invasive but not excessively so, so backporting to
-stable should be okay. If something does turn out to be wrong, the fallback
is to revert the entire chain ([1]-[5]) and rework in the development branch
instead.

v2: Pin cgrp across the deferred destroy work with explicit
    cgroup_get()/cgroup_put() around queue_work() and the work_fn. v1
    wasn't actually broken (ordered cgroup_offline_wq + queue_work order
    in cgroup_task_dead() saved it) but the explicit ref removes the
    dependency on those non-obvious invariants. Also note the
    pre-existing cgroup_apply_control_disable() race in the description;
    a follow-up will defer kill_css_finish() there.

Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Pitt &lt;martin@piware.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afHNg2VX2jy9bW7y@piware.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35e0670adb4abeab13da2c321582af9f@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
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A chain of commits going back to v7.0 reworked rmdir to satisfy the
controller invariant that a subsystem's -&gt;css_offline() must not run while
tasks are still doing kernel-side work in the cgroup.

[1] d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
[2] a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
[3] 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
[4] 4c56a8ac6869 ("cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition")
[5] 13e786b64bd3 ("cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context")

[1] moved task cset unlink from do_exit() to finish_task_switch() so a
task's cset link drops only after the task has fully stopped scheduling.
That made tasks past exit_signals() linger on cset-&gt;tasks until their final
context switch, which led to a series of problems as what userspace expected
to see after rmdir diverged from what the kernel needs to wait for. [2]-[5]
tried to bridge that divergence: [2] filtered the exiting tasks from
cgroup.procs; [3] had rmdir(2) sleep in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for them; [4]
fixed the wait's condition; [5] made nr_dying_subsys_* visible
synchronously.

The cgroup_drain_dying() wait in [3] turned out to be a dead end. When the
rmdir caller is also the reaper of a zombie that pins a pidns teardown (e.g.
host PID 1 systemd reaping orphan pids that were re-parented to it during
the same teardown), rmdir blocks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE waiting for those
pids to free, the pids can't free because PID 1 is the reaper and it's stuck
in rmdir, and the system A-A deadlocks. No internal lock ordering breaks
this; the wait itself is the bug.

The css killing side that drove the original reorder, however, can be made
cleanly asynchronous: -&gt;css_offline() is already async, run from
css_killed_work_fn() driven by percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(). The fix is to
make that chain start only after all tasks have left the cgroup. rmdir's
user-visible side then returns as soon as cgroup.procs and friends are
empty, while -&gt;css_offline() still runs only after the cgroup is fully
drained.

Verified by the original reproducer (pidns teardown + zombie reaper, runs
under vng) which hangs vanilla and succeeds here, and by per-commit
deterministic repros for [2], [3], [4], [5] with a boot parameter that
widens the post-exit_signals() window so each state is reliably reachable.
Some stress tests on top of that.

cgroup_apply_control_disable() has the same shape of pre-existing race:
when a controller is disabled via subtree_control, kill_css() ran
synchronously while tasks past exit_signals() could still be linked to
the cgroup's csets, and -&gt;css_offline() could fire before they drained.
This patch preserves the existing synchronous behavior at that call site
(kill_css_sync() + kill_css_finish() back-to-back) and a follow-up patch
will defer kill_css_finish() there using a per-css trigger.

This seems like the right approach and I don't see problems with it. The
changes are somewhat invasive but not excessively so, so backporting to
-stable should be okay. If something does turn out to be wrong, the fallback
is to revert the entire chain ([1]-[5]) and rework in the development branch
instead.

v2: Pin cgrp across the deferred destroy work with explicit
    cgroup_get()/cgroup_put() around queue_work() and the work_fn. v1
    wasn't actually broken (ordered cgroup_offline_wq + queue_work order
    in cgroup_task_dead() saved it) but the explicit ref removes the
    dependency on those non-obvious invariants. Also note the
    pre-existing cgroup_apply_control_disable() race in the description;
    a follow-up will defer kill_css_finish() there.

Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Pitt &lt;martin@piware.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afHNg2VX2jy9bW7y@piware.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35e0670adb4abeab13da2c321582af9f@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
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