Fengguang reported this bug: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000003c IP: [<cc90b4ad>] cgroup_cfts_commit+0x27/0x1c1 ... Call Trace: [<cc9d1129>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x33f/0x3b7 [<cc90c6fc>] cgroup_add_cftypes+0x8f/0xca [<cd78b646>] cgroup_init+0x6a/0x26a [<cd764d7d>] start_kernel+0x4d7/0x57a [<cd7642ef>] i386_start_kernel+0x92/0x96 This happens in a corner case. If CGROUP_SCHED=y but CFS_BANDWIDTH=n && FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=n && RT_GROUP_SCHED=n, we have: cpu_files[] = { { } /* terminate */ } When we pass cpu_files to cgroup_apply_cftypes(), as cpu_files[0].ss is NULL, we'll access NULL pointer. The bug was introduced by commit de00ffa56ea3132c6013fc8f07133b8a1014cf53 ("cgroup: make cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes use cgroup_add_cftypes()"). Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index eaffc08..465c1d8 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2356,6 +2356,9 @@ int cgroup_add_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts) { int ret; + if (!cfts || cfts[0].name[0] == '\0') + return 0; + ret = cgroup_init_cftypes(ss, cfts); if (ret) return ret; -- 1.8.0.2 -- 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