[Devel] [PATCH] cgroup: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed

[Li Zefan]

This fixes 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 at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 35eebd5..358e775 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);
-- 
1.5.4.rc3

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