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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:23:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490960EF.7020500@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)

This fixes oops when reading /proc/sched_debug.

A cgroup won't be removed completely until finishing cgroup_diput(), so we
shouldn't invalidate cgrp->dentry in cgroup_rmdir(). Otherwise, when a
group is being removed while cgroup_path() gets called, we may trigger NULL
dereference BUG.

The bug can be reproduced:

 # cat test.sh
 #!/bin/sh
 mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /mnt
 for (( ; ; ))
 {
	mkdir /mnt/sub
	rmdir /mnt/sub
 }
 # ./test.sh &
 # cat /proc/sched_debug

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038
IP: [<c045a47f>] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90
...
Call Trace:
 [<c0420344>] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d
 [<c0421160>] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e
...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 35eebd5..358e775 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2497,7 +2497,6 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	list_del(&cgrp->sibling);
 	spin_lock(&cgrp->dentry->d_lock);
 	d = dget(cgrp->dentry);
-	cgrp->dentry = NULL;
 	spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);
 
 	cgroup_d_remove_dir(d);
-- 
1.5.4.rc3


             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30  7:23 Li Zefan [this message]
     [not found] ` <490960EF.7020500-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-30  7:32   ` [PATCH] cgroup: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed Andrew Morton
2008-10-30  7:41   ` Paul Menage
2008-10-30  7:32 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]   ` <20081030003226.33bad22a.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-30  7:43     ` Li Zefan
2008-10-30  7:43   ` Li Zefan
2008-10-30  7:41 ` Paul Menage
2008-10-30  8:07   ` Li Zefan
     [not found]   ` <6599ad830810300041o1f97999em7b64426414bae380-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-30  8:07     ` Li Zefan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-30  7:23 Li Zefan

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