From 24eb089950ce44603b30a3145a2c8520e2b55bb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:53:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] cgroups: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed 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: [] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90 ... Call Trace: [] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d [] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e ... Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: [2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/cgroup.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 35eebd5510c..358e77564e6 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2497,7 +2497,6 @@ 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);