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Tejun Heo committed 266ccd505e8
cgroup: fix cgroup_create() error handling path
ae7f164a09 ("cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to
online_css()") moved cgroup->subsys[] assignements later in
cgroup_create() but didn't update error handling path accordingly
leading to the following oops and leaking later css's after an
online_css() failure. The oops is from cgroup destruction path being
invoked on the partially constructed cgroup which is not ready to
handle empty slots in cgrp->subsys[] array.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffff810eeaa8>] cgroup_destroy_locked+0x118/0x2f0
PGD a780a067 PUD aadbe067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 6 PID: 7360 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 3.13.0-rc2+ #69
Hardware name:
task: ffff8800b9dbec00 ti: ffff8800a781a000 task.ti: ffff8800a781a000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810eeaa8>] [<ffffffff810eeaa8>] cgroup_destroy_locked+0x118/0x2f0
RSP: 0018:ffff8800a781bd98 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffff880586903878 RBX: ffff880586903800 RCX: ffff880586903820
RDX: ffff880586903860 RSI: ffff8800a781bdb0 RDI: ffff880586903820
RBP: ffff8800a781bde8 R08: ffff88060e0b8048 R09: ffffffff811d7bc1
R10: 000000000000008c R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8800a72286c0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff81cf7a40 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 00007f60ecda57a0(0000) GS:ffff8806272c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000000a7a03000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
Stack:
ffff880586903860 ffff880586903910 ffff8800a72286c0 ffff880586903820
ffffffff81cf7a40 ffff880586903800 ffff88060e0b8018 ffffffff81cf7a40
ffff8800b9dbec00 ffff8800b9dbf098 ffff8800a781bec8 ffffffff810ef5bf
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810ef5bf>] cgroup_mkdir+0x55f/0x5f0
[<ffffffff811c90ae>] vfs_mkdir+0xee/0x140
[<ffffffff811cb07e>] SyS_mkdirat+0x6e/0xf0
[<ffffffff811c6a19>] SyS_mkdir+0x19/0x20
[<ffffffff8169e569>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This patch moves reference bumping inside online_css() loop, clears
css_ar[] as css's are brought online successfully, and updates
err_destroy path so that either a css is fully online and destroyed by
cgroup_destroy_locked() or the error path frees it. This creates a
duplicate css free logic in the error path but it will be cleaned up
soon.
v2: Li pointed out that cgroup_destroy_locked() would do NULL-deref if
invoked with a cgroup which doesn't have all css's populated.
Update cgroup_destroy_locked() so that it skips NULL css's.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.12+