This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cgroup: fix cgroup_create() error handling path
to the 3.12-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:
cgroup-fix-cgroup_create-error-handling-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 266ccd505e8acb98717819cef9d91d66c7b237cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:07:32 -0500
Subject: cgroup: fix cgroup_create() error handling path
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 266ccd505e8acb98717819cef9d91d66c7b237cc upstream.
ae7f164a09 ("cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to
online_css()") moved cgroup->subsys[] assignements later in
cgroup_create() but didn't update error handling path accordingly
leading to the following oops and leaking later css's after an
online_css() failure. The oops is from cgroup destruction path being
invoked on the partially constructed cgroup which is not ready to
handle empty slots in cgrp->subsys[] array.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffff810eeaa8>] cgroup_destroy_locked+0x118/0x2f0
PGD a780a067 PUD aadbe067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 6 PID: 7360 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 3.13.0-rc2+ #69
Hardware name:
task: ffff8800b9dbec00 ti: ffff8800a781a000 task.ti: ffff8800a781a000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810eeaa8>] [<ffffffff810eeaa8>] cgroup_destroy_locked+0x118/0x2f0
RSP: 0018:ffff8800a781bd98 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffff880586903878 RBX: ffff880586903800 RCX: ffff880586903820
RDX: ffff880586903860 RSI: ffff8800a781bdb0 RDI: ffff880586903820
RBP: ffff8800a781bde8 R08: ffff88060e0b8048 R09: ffffffff811d7bc1
R10: 000000000000008c R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8800a72286c0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff81cf7a40 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 00007f60ecda57a0(0000) GS:ffff8806272c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000000a7a03000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
Stack:
ffff880586903860 ffff880586903910 ffff8800a72286c0 ffff880586903820
ffffffff81cf7a40 ffff880586903800 ffff88060e0b8018 ffffffff81cf7a40
ffff8800b9dbec00 ffff8800b9dbf098 ffff8800a781bec8 ffffffff810ef5bf
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810ef5bf>] cgroup_mkdir+0x55f/0x5f0
[<ffffffff811c90ae>] vfs_mkdir+0xee/0x140
[<ffffffff811cb07e>] SyS_mkdirat+0x6e/0xf0
[<ffffffff811c6a19>] SyS_mkdir+0x19/0x20
[<ffffffff8169e569>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This patch moves reference bumping inside online_css() loop, clears
css_ar[] as css's are brought online successfully, and updates
err_destroy path so that either a css is fully online and destroyed by
cgroup_destroy_locked() or the error path frees it. This creates a
duplicate css free logic in the error path but it will be cleaned up
soon.
v2: Li pointed out that cgroup_destroy_locked() would do NULL-deref if
invoked with a cgroup which doesn't have all css's populated.
Update cgroup_destroy_locked() so that it skips NULL css's.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4490,14 +4490,6 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup
list_add_tail_rcu(&cgrp->sibling, &cgrp->parent->children);
root->number_of_cgroups++;
- /* each css holds a ref to the cgroup's dentry and the parent css */
- for_each_root_subsys(root, ss) {
- struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = css_ar[ss->subsys_id];
-
- dget(dentry);
- css_get(css->parent);
- }
-
/* hold a ref to the parent's dentry */
dget(parent->dentry);
@@ -4509,6 +4501,13 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup
if (err)
goto err_destroy;
+ /* each css holds a ref to the cgroup's dentry and parent css */
+ dget(dentry);
+ css_get(css->parent);
+
+ /* mark it consumed for error path */
+ css_ar[ss->subsys_id] = NULL;
+
if (ss->broken_hierarchy && !ss->warned_broken_hierarchy &&
parent->parent) {
pr_warning("cgroup: %s (%d) created nested cgroup for controller \"%s\" which has incomplete hierarchy support. Nested cgroups may change behavior in the future.\n",
@@ -4555,6 +4554,14 @@ err_free_cgrp:
return err;
err_destroy:
+ for_each_root_subsys(root, ss) {
+ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = css_ar[ss->subsys_id];
+
+ if (css) {
+ percpu_ref_cancel_init(&css->refcnt);
+ ss->css_free(css);
+ }
+ }
cgroup_destroy_locked(cgrp);
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
@@ -4716,8 +4723,12 @@ static int cgroup_destroy_locked(struct
* will be invoked to perform the rest of destruction once the
* percpu refs of all css's are confirmed to be killed.
*/
- for_each_root_subsys(cgrp->root, ss)
- kill_css(cgroup_css(cgrp, ss));
+ for_each_root_subsys(cgrp->root, ss) {
+ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = cgroup_css(cgrp, ss);
+
+ if (css)
+ kill_css(css);
+ }
/*
* Mark @cgrp dead. This prevents further task migration and child
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/cgroup-fix-cgroup_create-error-handling-path.patch
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