4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c0576e3975084d4699b7bfef578613fb8e1144f6 ] If for some reason, the newly allocated child need to be freed, we will call cgroup_put() (via sk_free_unlock_clone()) while the corresponding cgroup_get() was not yet done, and we will free memory too soon. Fixes: d979a39d7242 ("cgroup: duplicate cgroup reference when cloning sockets") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/sock.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -1526,6 +1526,7 @@ struct sock *sk_clone_lock(const struct newsk->sk_userlocks = sk->sk_userlocks & ~SOCK_BINDPORT_LOCK; sock_reset_flag(newsk, SOCK_DONE); + cgroup_sk_alloc(&newsk->sk_cgrp_data); skb_queue_head_init(&newsk->sk_error_queue); filter = rcu_dereference_protected(newsk->sk_filter, 1); @@ -1560,8 +1561,6 @@ struct sock *sk_clone_lock(const struct atomic64_set(&newsk->sk_cookie, 0); mem_cgroup_sk_alloc(newsk); - cgroup_sk_alloc(&newsk->sk_cgrp_data); - /* * Before updating sk_refcnt, we must commit prior changes to memory * (Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt for details)