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Li Zefan committed a4189487da1
cgroup: delay the clearing of cgrp->kn->priv 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: [<c10bbd69>] cgroup_put+0x9/0x80 ... Call Trace: [<c10bbe19>] cgroup_kn_unlock+0x39/0x50 [<c10bbe91>] cgroup_kn_lock_live+0x61/0x70 [<c10be3c1>] __cgroup_procs_write.isra.26+0x51/0x230 [<c10be5b2>] cgroup_tasks_write+0x12/0x20 [<c10bb7b0>] cgroup_file_write+0x40/0x130 [<c11aee71>] kernfs_fop_write+0xd1/0x160 [<c1148e58>] vfs_write+0x98/0x1e0 [<c114934d>] SyS_write+0x4d/0xa0 [<c16f656b>] 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: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+ Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>