From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> commit df02452f3df069a59bc9e69c84435bf115cb6e37 upstream. cgroup has to be one kernfs dir, otherwise kernel panic is caused, especially cgroup id is provide from userspace. Reported-by: Marco Patalano <mpatalan@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 6b658c4863c1 ("scsi: cgroup: Add cgroup_get_from_id()") Cc: Muneendra <muneendra.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.14+ Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -6026,6 +6026,9 @@ struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id if (!kn) goto out; + if (kernfs_type(kn) != KERNFS_DIR) + goto put; + rcu_read_lock(); cgrp = rcu_dereference(*(void __rcu __force **)&kn->priv); @@ -6033,7 +6036,7 @@ struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id cgrp = NULL; rcu_read_unlock(); - +put: kernfs_put(kn); out: return cgrp;