> When I ran a test program to fork mass processes and at the same time
> 'cat /cgroup/tasks', I got the following oops:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:72!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> Pid: 4178, comm: a.out Not tainted (2.6.25-rc9 #72)
> ...
> Call Trace:
> [<c044a5f9>] ? cgroup_exit+0x55/0x94
> [<c0427acf>] ? do_exit+0x217/0x5ba
> [<c0427ed7>] ? do_group_exit+0.65/0x7c
> [<c0427efd>] ? sys_exit_group+0xf/0x11
> [<c0404842>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> [<c05e0000>] ? init_cyrix+0x2fa/0x479
> ...
> EIP: [<c04df671>] list_del+0x35/0x53 SS:ESP 0068:ebc7df4
> ---[ end trace caffb7332252612b ]---
> Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
>
> After digging into the code and debugging, I finlly found out a race
> situation:
> do_exit()
> ->cgroup_exit()
> ->if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list))
> list_del(&tsk->cg_list);
>
> cgroup_iter_start()
> ->cgroup_enable_task_cg_list()
> ->list_add(&tsk->cg_list, ..);
>
> In this case the list won't be deleted though the process has exited.
>
> We got two bug reports in the past, which seem to be the same bug as
> this one:
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/332
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/224
