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    Merge branch 'for-4.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup · 5406812e
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
     "More change than I'd have liked at this stage.  The pids controller
      and the changes made to cgroup core to support it introduced and
      revealed several important issues.
    
       - Assigning membership to a newly created task and migrating it can
         race leading to incorrect accounting.  Oleg fixed it by widening
         threadgroup synchronization.  It looks like we'll be able to merge
         it with a different percpu rwsem which is used in fork path making
         things simpler and cheaper.
    
       - The recent change to extend cgroup membership to zombies (so that
         pid accounting can extend till the pid is actually released) missed
         pinning the underlying data structures leading to use-after-free.
         Fixed.
    
       - v2 hierarchy was calling subsystem callbacks with the wrong target
         cgroup_subsys_state based on the incorrect assumption that they
         share the same target.  pids is the first controller affected by
         this.  Subsys callbacks updated so that they can deal with
         multi-target migrations"
    
    * 'for-4.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
      cgroup_pids: don't account for the root cgroup
      cgroup: fix handling of multi-destination migration from subtree_control enabling
      cgroup_freezer: simplify propagation of CGROUP_FROZEN clearing in freezer_attach()
      cgroup: pids: kill pids_fork(), simplify pids_can_fork() and pids_cancel_fork()
      cgroup: pids: fix race between cgroup_post_fork() and cgroup_migrate()
      cgroup: make css_set pin its css's to avoid use-afer-free
      cgroup: fix cftype->file_offset handling
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