[PATCH 4.4 35/91] sched/cgroup: Move sched_online_group() back into css_online() to fix crash - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 35/91] sched/cgroup: Move sched_online_group() back into css_online() to fix crash
Date: Fri,  4 Aug 2017 16:15:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170804231557.880361873@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170804231555.678888089@linuxfoundation.org>

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>

commit 96b777452d8881480fd5be50112f791c17db4b6b upstream.

Commit:

  2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")

.. moved sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc().
It exposes half-baked task group into global lists before initializing
generic cgroup stuff.

LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing
similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: kernfs_path_from_node_locked+0x260/0x320
  CPU: 1 PID: 30346 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-test #4
  Call Trace:
  ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
  kernfs_path_from_node+0x3e/0x60
  print_rt_rq+0x44/0x2b0
  print_rt_stats+0x7a/0xd0
  print_cpu+0x2fc/0xe80
  ? __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
  sched_debug_show+0x17/0x30
  seq_read+0xf2/0x3b0
  proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
  __vfs_read+0x28/0x130
  ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
  ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
  vfs_read+0xa5/0x170
  SyS_read+0x46/0xa0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad

Here the task group is already linked into the global RCU-protected 'task_groups'
list, but the css->cgroup pointer is still NULL.

This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148655324740.424917.5302984537258726349.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/core.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8253,11 +8253,20 @@ cpu_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy
 	if (IS_ERR(tg))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-	sched_online_group(tg, parent);
-
 	return &tg->css;
 }
 
+/* Expose task group only after completing cgroup initialization */
+static int cpu_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
+{
+	struct task_group *tg = css_tg(css);
+	struct task_group *parent = css_tg(css->parent);
+
+	if (parent)
+		sched_online_group(tg, parent);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static void cpu_cgroup_css_released(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 {
 	struct task_group *tg = css_tg(css);
@@ -8632,6 +8641,7 @@ static struct cftype cpu_files[] = {
 
 struct cgroup_subsys cpu_cgrp_subsys = {
 	.css_alloc	= cpu_cgroup_css_alloc,
+	.css_online	= cpu_cgroup_css_online,
 	.css_released	= cpu_cgroup_css_released,
 	.css_free	= cpu_cgroup_css_free,
 	.fork		= cpu_cgroup_fork,
