[PATCH 1/1] cgroup: Fix race condition at rebind_subsystems()

Jing-Ting Wu Jing-Ting.Wu at mediatek.com
Mon Aug 22 22:09:41 PDT 2022


Root cause:
The rebind_subsystems() is no lock held when move css object from A
list to B list,then let B's head be treated as css node at
list_for_each_entry_rcu().

Solution:
Add grace period before invalidating the removed rstat_css_node.

Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jing-Ting Wu <Jing-Ting.Wu at mediatek.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index ffaccd6373f1..0d0c959966ed 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -1820,6 +1820,7 @@ int rebind_subsystems(struct cgroup_root *dst_root, u16 ss_mask)
 
 		if (ss->css_rstat_flush) {
 			list_del_rcu(&css->rstat_css_node);
+			synchronize_rcu();
 			list_add_rcu(&css->rstat_css_node,
 				     &dcgrp->rstat_css_list);
 		}
-- 
2.18.0




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