Commit:

  2f5177f0

 ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")

.. moved sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc().
It exposes half-baked task group into global lists before initializing
generic cgroup stuff.

LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing
similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: kernfs_path_from_node_locked+0x260/0x320
  CPU: 1 PID: 30346 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-test #4
  Call Trace:
  ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
  kernfs_path_from_node+0x3e/0x60
  print_rt_rq+0x44/0x2b0
  print_rt_stats+0x7a/0xd0
  print_cpu+0x2fc/0xe80
  ? __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
  sched_debug_show+0x17/0x30
  seq_read+0xf2/0x3b0
  proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
  __vfs_read+0x28/0x130
  ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
  ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
  vfs_read+0xa5/0x170
  SyS_read+0x46/0xa0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad

Here the task group is already linked into the global RCU-protected 'task_groups'
list, but the css->cgroup pointer is still NULL.

This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 2f5177f0 ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148655324740.424917.5302984537258726349.stgit@buzz


Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>