Commit 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init") moved sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc(). It exposes half-baked task group into global lists before initializing generic cgroup stuff. LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: kernfs_path_from_node_locked+0x260/0x320 CPU: 1 PID: 30346 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-test #4 Call Trace: ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60 kernfs_path_from_node+0x3e/0x60 print_rt_rq+0x44/0x2b0 print_rt_stats+0x7a/0xd0 print_cpu+0x2fc/0xe80 ? __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80 sched_debug_show+0x17/0x30 seq_read+0xf2/0x3b0 proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70 __vfs_read+0x28/0x130 ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0 ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0 vfs_read+0xa5/0x170 SyS_read+0x46/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad Here task group already linked into global RCU-protected list task_groups but pointer css->cgroup is still NULL. This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online(). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.6+ --- kernel/sched/core.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index c56fb57f2991..a4020bec7a87 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -8398,11 +8398,19 @@ cpu_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css) if (IS_ERR(tg)) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - sched_online_group(tg, parent); - return &tg->css; } +static int cpu_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) +{ + struct task_group *tg = css_tg(css); + struct task_group *parent = css_tg(css->parent); + + if (parent) + sched_online_group(tg, parent); + return 0; +} + static void cpu_cgroup_css_released(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { struct task_group *tg = css_tg(css); @@ -8805,6 +8813,7 @@ static struct cftype cpu_files[] = { struct cgroup_subsys cpu_cgrp_subsys = { .css_alloc = cpu_cgroup_css_alloc, + .css_online = cpu_cgroup_css_online, .css_released = cpu_cgroup_css_released, .css_free = cpu_cgroup_css_free, .fork = cpu_cgroup_fork, -- 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