There is no compensating cgroup_bpf_put() for each ancestor cgroup in cgroup_bpf_inherit(). If compute_effective_progs returns error, those cgroups won't be freed ever. Fix it by putting them in cleanup code path. Fixes: e10360f815ca ("bpf: cgroup: prevent out-of-order release of cgroup bpf") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/cgroup.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c b/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c index 9a500fadbef5..5220a67392fc 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ int cgroup_bpf_inherit(struct cgroup *cgrp) for (i = 0; i < NR; i++) bpf_prog_array_free(arrays[i]); + for (p = cgroup_parent(cgrp); p; p = cgroup_parent(p)) + cgroup_bpf_put(p); + percpu_ref_exit(&cgrp->bpf.refcnt); return -ENOMEM; -- 2.17.1