3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f169007b2773f285e098cb84c74aac0154d65ff7 upstream. If we pass fd of memory.usage_in_bytes of cgroup A to cgroup.event_control of cgroup B, then we won't get memory usage notification from A but B! What's worse, if A and B are in different mount hierarchy, we'll end up accessing NULL pointer! Disallow this kind of invalid usage. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -3476,6 +3476,7 @@ static int cgroup_write_event_control(st const char *buffer) { struct cgroup_event *event = NULL; + struct cgroup *cgrp_cfile; unsigned int efd, cfd; struct file *efile = NULL; struct file *cfile = NULL; @@ -3531,6 +3532,16 @@ static int cgroup_write_event_control(st goto fail; } + /* + * The file to be monitored must be in the same cgroup as + * cgroup.event_control is. + */ + cgrp_cfile = __d_cgrp(cfile->f_dentry->d_parent); + if (cgrp_cfile != cgrp) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto fail; + } + if (!event->cft->register_event || !event->cft->unregister_event) { ret = -EINVAL; goto fail; -- 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