Commit 83d0eb79 authored by Li Zefan's avatar Li Zefan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race

commit 1c8158ee upstream.

 commit 5db9a4d9
 Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
 Date:   Sat Jul 7 16:08:18 2012 -0700

     cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount race

This commit fixed a race caused by the dput() in css_dput_fn(), but
the dput() in cgroup_event_remove() can also lead to the same BUG().
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 5eb26989
......@@ -3726,6 +3726,23 @@ static int cgroup_write_notify_on_release(struct cgroup *cgrp,
return 0;
}
/*
* When dput() is called asynchronously, if umount has been done and
* then deactivate_super() in cgroup_free_fn() kills the superblock,
* there's a small window that vfs will see the root dentry with non-zero
* refcnt and trigger BUG().
*
* That's why we hold a reference before dput() and drop it right after.
*/
static void cgroup_dput(struct cgroup *cgrp)
{
struct super_block *sb = cgrp->root->sb;
atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
dput(cgrp->dentry);
deactivate_super(sb);
}
/*
* Unregister event and free resources.
*
......@@ -3746,7 +3763,7 @@ static void cgroup_event_remove(struct work_struct *work)
eventfd_ctx_put(event->eventfd);
kfree(event);
dput(cgrp->dentry);
cgroup_dput(cgrp);
}
/*
......@@ -4031,12 +4048,8 @@ static void css_dput_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css =
container_of(work, struct cgroup_subsys_state, dput_work);
struct dentry *dentry = css->cgroup->dentry;
struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;
atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
dput(dentry);
deactivate_super(sb);
cgroup_dput(css->cgroup);
}
static void init_cgroup_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
......
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