From: Li Zefan Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:58:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc20e01cd607282d48f8ea538aba10fa850a4312;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs Try: # mount -t cgroup xxx /cgroup # mkdir /cgroup/sub && rmdir /cgroup/sub && umount /cgroup And you might see this: ida_remove called for id=1 which is not allocated. It's because cgroup_kill_sb() is called to destroy root->cgroup_ida and free cgrp->root before ida_simple_removed() is called. What's worse is we're accessing cgrp->root while it has been freed. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 192d762ec1f4..bd4de465d5a9 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -848,9 +848,12 @@ static void cgroup_free_fn(struct work_struct *work) */ dput(cgrp->parent->dentry); + ida_simple_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_ida, cgrp->id); + /* * Drop the active superblock reference that we took when we - * created the cgroup + * created the cgroup. This will free cgrp->root, if we are + * holding the last reference to @sb. */ deactivate_super(cgrp->root->sb); @@ -862,7 +865,6 @@ static void cgroup_free_fn(struct work_struct *work) simple_xattrs_free(&cgrp->xattrs); - ida_simple_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_ida, cgrp->id); kfree(rcu_dereference_raw(cgrp->name)); kfree(cgrp); }