From 93a4b36ef3cf4ce5e6a7e7a7686181de76e246a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nirbhay Sharma Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:15:55 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix seqcount lockdep assertion in cgroup freezer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The commit afa3701c0e45 ("cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accounting") introduced a seqcount to track freeze timing but initialized it as a plain seqcount_t using seqcount_init(). However, the write-side critical section in cgroup_do_freeze() holds the css_set_lock spinlock while calling write_seqcount_begin(). On PREEMPT_RT kernels, spinlocks do not disable preemption, causing the lockdep assertion for a plain seqcount_t, which checks for preemption being disabled, to fail. This triggers the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9692 at include/linux/seqlock.h:221 Fix this by changing the type to seqcount_spinlock_t and initializing it with seqcount_spinlock_init() to associate css_set_lock with the seqcount. This allows lockdep to correctly validate that the spinlock is held during write operations, resolving the assertion failure on all kernel configurations. Reported-by: syzbot+27a2519eb4dad86d0156@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=27a2519eb4dad86d0156 Fixes: afa3701c0e45 ("cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accounting") Signed-off-by: Nirbhay Sharma Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251002165510.KtY3IT--@linutronix.de/ Acked-by: Michal Koutný Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 2 +- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h index 93318fce31f3a..b760a3c470a56 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ struct cgroup_freezer_state { int nr_frozen_tasks; /* Freeze time data consistency protection */ - seqcount_t freeze_seq; + seqcount_spinlock_t freeze_seq; /* * Most recent time the cgroup was requested to freeze. diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 6ae5f48cf64e3..fdee387f0d6be 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -5892,7 +5892,7 @@ static struct cgroup *cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, const char *name, * if the parent has to be frozen, the child has too. */ cgrp->freezer.e_freeze = parent->freezer.e_freeze; - seqcount_init(&cgrp->freezer.freeze_seq); + seqcount_spinlock_init(&cgrp->freezer.freeze_seq, &css_set_lock); if (cgrp->freezer.e_freeze) { /* * Set the CGRP_FREEZE flag, so when a process will be -- 2.47.3