3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 63f43f55c9bbc14f76b582644019b8a07dc8219a upstream. rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold a longer name. It's safe in the protection of dentry->d_lock. v2: check NULL dentry before acquiring dentry lock. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cpuset.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -2507,8 +2507,16 @@ void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(stru dentry = task_cs(tsk)->css.cgroup->dentry; spin_lock(&cpuset_buffer_lock); - snprintf(cpuset_name, CPUSET_NAME_LEN, - dentry ? (const char *)dentry->d_name.name : "/"); + + if (!dentry) { + strcpy(cpuset_name, "/"); + } else { + spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); + strlcpy(cpuset_name, (const char *)dentry->d_name.name, + CPUSET_NAME_LEN); + spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); + } + nodelist_scnprintf(cpuset_nodelist, CPUSET_NODELIST_LEN, tsk->mems_allowed); printk(KERN_INFO "%s cpuset=%s mems_allowed=%s\n", -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html