This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/cgroup: Move sched_online_group() back into css_online() to fix crash
to the 4.9-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:
sched-cgroup-move-sched_online_group-back-into-css_online-to-fix-crash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 96b777452d8881480fd5be50112f791c17db4b6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 14:27:27 +0300
Subject: sched/cgroup: Move sched_online_group() back into css_online() to fix crash
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 96b777452d8881480fd5be50112f791c17db4b6b upstream.
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 the task group is already linked into the global RCU-protected 'task_groups'
list, but the css->cgroup pointer is still NULL.
This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online().
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148655324740.424917.5302984537258726349.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8376,11 +8376,20 @@ cpu_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy
if (IS_ERR(tg))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- sched_online_group(tg, parent);
-
return &tg->css;
}
+/* Expose task group only after completing cgroup initialization */
+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);
@@ -8783,6 +8792,7 @@ 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,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/sched-cgroup-move-sched_online_group-back-into-css_online-to-fix-crash.patch