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author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-11-06 12:53:32 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -0800 |
commit | 24eb089950ce44603b30a3145a2c8520e2b55bb1 (patch) | |
tree | 3cccd3e15589c693c8c4e6484a938d2343ef1abc /Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt | |
parent | b41ad14c30acf023d09ac064096a4cf41248ce46 (diff) |
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: [<c045a47f>] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90
...
Call Trace:
[<c0420344>] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d
[<c0421160>] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e
...
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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