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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2017-01-26 16:47:28 -0500
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2017-01-26 16:47:28 -0500
commit07cd12945551b63ecb1a349d50a6d69d1d6feb4a (patch)
tree75f65eba7eac9277971082a2d5a4cf1370562c0c /kernel
parent7ce7d89f48834cefece7804d38fc5d85382edf77 (diff)
downloadlinux-07cd12945551b63ecb1a349d50a6d69d1d6feb4a.tar.bz2
cgroup: don't online subsystems before cgroup_name/path() are operational
While refactoring cgroup creation, a5bca2152036 ("cgroup: factor out cgroup_create() out of cgroup_mkdir()") incorrectly onlined subsystems before the new cgroup is associated with it kernfs_node. This is fine for cgroup proper but cgroup_name/path() depend on the associated kernfs_node and if a subsystem makes the new cgroup_subsys_state visible, which they're allowed to after onlining, it can lead to NULL dereference. The current code performs cgroup creation and subsystem onlining in cgroup_create() and cgroup_mkdir() makes the cgroup and subsystems visible afterwards. There's no reason to online the subsystems early and we can simply drop cgroup_apply_control_enable() call from cgroup_create() so that the subsystems are onlined and made visible at the same time. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Fixes: a5bca2152036 ("cgroup: factor out cgroup_create() out of cgroup_mkdir()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 2ee9ec3051b2..688dd02af985 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -5221,6 +5221,11 @@ err_free_css:
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
+/*
+ * The returned cgroup is fully initialized including its control mask, but
+ * it isn't associated with its kernfs_node and doesn't have the control
+ * mask applied.
+ */
static struct cgroup *cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent)
{
struct cgroup_root *root = parent->root;
@@ -5288,11 +5293,6 @@ static struct cgroup *cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent)
cgroup_propagate_control(cgrp);
- /* @cgrp doesn't have dir yet so the following will only create csses */
- ret = cgroup_apply_control_enable(cgrp);
- if (ret)
- goto out_destroy;
-
return cgrp;
out_cancel_ref:
@@ -5300,9 +5300,6 @@ out_cancel_ref:
out_free_cgrp:
kfree(cgrp);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
-out_destroy:
- cgroup_destroy_locked(cgrp);
- return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_node *parent_kn, const char *name,