This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled blk-cgroup: dropping parent refcount after pd_free_fn() is done to the 6.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: blk-cgroup-dropping-parent-refcount-after-pd_free_fn.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 12b0a6110ee85bcc57b43d6eecd74ad5694b4a02 Author: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 19 19:03:48 2023 +0800 blk-cgroup: dropping parent refcount after pd_free_fn() is done [ Upstream commit c7241babf0855d8a6180cd1743ff0ec34de40b4e ] Some cgroup policies will access parent pd through child pd even after pd_offline_fn() is done. If pd_free_fn() for parent is called before child, then UAF can be triggered. Hence it's better to guarantee the order of pd_free_fn(). Currently refcount of parent blkg is dropped in __blkg_release(), which is before pd_free_fn() is called in blkg_free_work_fn() while blkg_free_work_fn() is called asynchronously. This patch make sure pd_free_fn() called from removing cgroup is ordered by delaying dropping parent refcount after calling pd_free_fn() for child. BTW, pd_free_fn() will also be called from blkcg_deactivate_policy() from deleting device, and following patches will guarantee the order. Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230119110350.2287325-2-yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c index 9ac1efb053e08..aa890e3e4e509 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c @@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ static void blkg_free_workfn(struct work_struct *work) if (blkg->pd[i]) blkcg_policy[i]->pd_free_fn(blkg->pd[i]); + if (blkg->parent) + blkg_put(blkg->parent); if (blkg->q) blk_put_queue(blkg->q); free_percpu(blkg->iostat_cpu); @@ -158,8 +160,6 @@ static void __blkg_release(struct rcu_head *rcu) /* release the blkcg and parent blkg refs this blkg has been holding */ css_put(&blkg->blkcg->css); - if (blkg->parent) - blkg_put(blkg->parent); blkg_free(blkg); }