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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index fd38e1cfacc..65b72d0367c 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -876,6 +876,13 @@ static void cgroup_free_fn(struct work_struct *work) mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); /* + * We get a ref to the parent's dentry, and put the ref when + * this cgroup is being freed, so it's guaranteed that the + * parent won't be destroyed before its children. + */ + dput(cgrp->parent->dentry); + + /* * Drop the active superblock reference that we took when we * created the cgroup */ @@ -4164,6 +4171,9 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, for_each_subsys(root, ss) dget(dentry); + /* hold a ref to the parent's dentry */ + dget(parent->dentry); + /* creation succeeded, notify subsystems */ for_each_subsys(root, ss) { err = online_css(ss, cgrp); |