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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 166b5141f3d..c53f42e3170 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2657,9 +2657,15 @@ static int cgroup_create_file(struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, inc_nlink(inode); inc_nlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); - /* start with the directory inode held, so that we can - * populate it without racing with another mkdir */ - mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); + /* + * Control reaches here with cgroup_mutex held. + * @inode->i_mutex should nest outside cgroup_mutex but we + * want to populate it immediately without releasing + * cgroup_mutex. As @inode isn't visible to anyone else + * yet, trylock will always succeed without affecting + * lockdep checks. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)); } else if (S_ISREG(mode)) { inode->i_size = 0; inode->i_fop = &cgroup_file_operations; |