From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753933AbdHDX1h (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2017 19:27:37 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48534 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753913AbdHDX1f (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2017 19:27:35 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Linus Torvalds , Tejun Heo , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Matt Fleming 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 Message-Id: <20170804231557.880361873@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.13.4 In-Reply-To: <20170804231555.678888089@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170804231555.678888089@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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,