Calling cgroup_unload_subsys() from cgroup_load_subsys() after online_css() failure will result in a NULL ptr dereference on attempt to offline_css(), because online_css() only assigns css to cgroup on success. Let's fix that by skipping calls to offline_css() and css_free() in cgroup_unload_subsys() if there is no css, and freeing css in cgroup_load_subsys() on online_css() failure. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 402f7aa..7030f04 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4652,8 +4652,10 @@ int __init_or_module cgroup_load_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss) write_unlock(&css_set_lock); ret = online_css(css); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + ss->css_free(css); goto err_unload; + } /* success! */ mutex_unlock(&cgroup_root_mutex); @@ -4680,6 +4682,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_load_subsys); void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss) { struct cgrp_cset_link *link; + struct cgroup_subsys_state *css; BUG_ON(ss->module == NULL); @@ -4693,7 +4696,9 @@ void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss) mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex); mutex_lock(&cgroup_root_mutex); - offline_css(cgroup_css(cgroup_dummy_top, ss)); + css = cgroup_css(cgroup_dummy_top, ss); + if (css) + offline_css(css); /* deassign the subsys_id */ cgroup_subsys[ss->subsys_id] = NULL; @@ -4720,7 +4725,8 @@ void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss) * need to free before marking as null because ss->css_free needs * the cgrp->subsys pointer to find their state. */ - ss->css_free(cgroup_css(cgroup_dummy_top, ss)); + if (css) + ss->css_free(css); RCU_INIT_POINTER(cgroup_dummy_top->subsys[ss->subsys_id], NULL); mutex_unlock(&cgroup_root_mutex); -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html