This commit adds an inline function to cgroup.h to check whether a given
task is under a given cgroup hierarchy. This is to avoid having to put
ifdefs in .c files to gate access to cgroups. When cgroups are disabled
this always returns true.
Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov
Cc: Daniel Borkmann
Cc: Tejun Heo
---
include/linux/cgroup.h | 23 +++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 984f73b..a4414a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -497,6 +497,23 @@ static inline bool cgroup_is_descendant(struct cgroup
*cgrp,
return cgrp->ancestor_ids[ancestor->level] == ancestor->id;
}
+/**
+ * task_under_cgroup_hierarchy - test task's membership of cgroup ancestry
+ * @task: the task to be tested
+ * @ancestor: possible ancestor of @task's cgroup
+ *
+ * Tests whether @task's default cgroup hierarchy is a descendant of @ancestor.
+ * It follows all the same rules as cgroup_is_descendant, and only applies
+ * to the default hierarchy.
+ */
+static inline bool task_under_cgroup_hierarchy(struct task_struct *task,
+ struct cgroup *ancestor)
+{
+ struct css_set *cset = task_css_set(task);
+
+ return cgroup_is_descendant(cset->dfl_cgrp, ancestor);
+}
+
/* no synchronization, the result can only be used as a hint */
static inline bool cgroup_is_populated(struct cgroup *cgrp)
{
@@ -557,6 +574,7 @@ static inline void pr_cont_cgroup_path(struct cgroup *cgrp)
#else /* !CONFIG_CGROUPS */
struct cgroup_subsys_state;
+struct cgroup;
static inline void css_put(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) {}
static inline int cgroup_attach_task_all(struct task_struct *from,
@@ -574,6 +592,11 @@ static inline void cgroup_free(struct task_struct *p) {}
static inline int cgroup_init_early(void) { return 0; }
static inline int cgroup_init(void) { return 0; }
+static inline bool task_under_cgroup_hierarchy(struct task_struct *task,
+ struct cgroup *ancestor)
+{
+ return true;
+}
#endif /* !CONFIG_CGROUPS */
/*
--
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