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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-11-07 00:05:48 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-11-13 09:55:55 -0800
commit880eaf154bc95220798e85802cdd9cb6534ee7a7 (patch)
tree6f681cd5e143913def4ddb22b2e50a0ca620f07e /kernel
parentc27c4b666ddf7a36b6f20c9b809217157496b36b (diff)
cgroups: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed
commit 24eb089950ce44603b30a3145a2c8520e2b55bb1 upstream This fixes an 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> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index a0123d75ec9..d68bf2bc5ca 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2443,7 +2443,6 @@ 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);