From a4189487da1b4f8260c6006b9dc47c3c4107a5ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:43:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: delay the clearing of cgrp->kn->priv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Run these two scripts concurrently: for ((; ;)) { mkdir /cgroup/sub rmdir /cgroup/sub } for ((; ;)) { echo $$ > /cgroup/sub/cgroup.procs echo $$ > /cgroup/cgroup.procs } A kernel bug will be triggered: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038 IP: [] cgroup_put+0x9/0x80 ... Call Trace: [] cgroup_kn_unlock+0x39/0x50 [] cgroup_kn_lock_live+0x61/0x70 [] __cgroup_procs_write.isra.26+0x51/0x230 [] cgroup_tasks_write+0x12/0x20 [] cgroup_file_write+0x40/0x130 [] kernfs_fop_write+0xd1/0x160 [] vfs_write+0x98/0x1e0 [] SyS_write+0x4d/0xa0 [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12 We clear cgrp->kn->priv in the end of cgroup_rmdir(), but another concurrent thread can access kn->priv after the clearing. We should move the clearing to css_release_work_fn(). At that time no one is holding reference to the cgroup and no one can gain a new reference to access it. v2: - move RCU_INIT_POINTER() into the else block. (Tejun) - remove the cgroup_parent() check. (Tejun) - update the comment in css_tryget_online_from_dir(). Cc: # 3.15+ Reported-by: Toralf Förster Signed-off-by: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/cgroup.c | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 50b94113f4f7..bf30076664ca 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4396,6 +4396,15 @@ static void css_release_work_fn(struct work_struct *work) /* cgroup release path */ cgroup_idr_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_idr, cgrp->id); cgrp->id = -1; + + /* + * There are two control paths which try to determine + * cgroup from dentry without going through kernfs - + * cgroupstats_build() and css_tryget_online_from_dir(). + * Those are supported by RCU protecting clearing of + * cgrp->kn->priv backpointer. + */ + RCU_INIT_POINTER(*(void __rcu __force **)&cgrp->kn->priv, NULL); } mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); @@ -4834,16 +4843,6 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct kernfs_node *kn) cgroup_kn_unlock(kn); - /* - * There are two control paths which try to determine cgroup from - * dentry without going through kernfs - cgroupstats_build() and - * css_tryget_online_from_dir(). Those are supported by RCU - * protecting clearing of cgrp->kn->priv backpointer, which should - * happen after all files under it have been removed. - */ - if (!ret) - RCU_INIT_POINTER(*(void __rcu __force **)&kn->priv, NULL); - cgroup_put(cgrp); return ret; } @@ -5430,7 +5429,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_tryget_online_from_dir(struct dentry *dentry, /* * This path doesn't originate from kernfs and @kn could already * have been or be removed at any point. @kn->priv is RCU - * protected for this access. See cgroup_rmdir() for details. + * protected for this access. See css_release_work_fn() for details. */ cgrp = rcu_dereference(kn->priv); if (cgrp) -- 2.20.1