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authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>2013-03-05 10:57:03 +0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-03-05 09:33:25 -0800
commit7d8e0bf56a66bab08d2f316dd87e56c08cecb899 (patch)
treebe35c2daec953f0c98241c16311879dd45bc4859 /kernel/cgroup.c
parentf50daa704f36a6544a902c52b6cf37b0493dfc5d (diff)
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cgroup: avoid accessing modular cgroup subsys structure without locking
subsys[i] is set to NULL in cgroup_unload_subsys() at modular unload, and that's protected by cgroup_mutex, and then the memory *subsys[i] resides will be freed. So this is unsafe without any locking: if (!ss || ss->module) ... v2: - add a comment for enum cgroup_subsys_id - simplify the comment in cgroup_exit() Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c28
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 9df799d5d31c..7a6c4c72ca55 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4940,17 +4940,17 @@ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child)
* and addition to css_set.
*/
if (need_forkexit_callback) {
- for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
+ /*
+ * fork/exit callbacks are supported only for builtin
+ * subsystems, and the builtin section of the subsys
+ * array is immutable, so we don't need to lock the
+ * subsys array here. On the other hand, modular section
+ * of the array can be freed at module unload, so we
+ * can't touch that.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
- /*
- * fork/exit callbacks are supported only for
- * builtin subsystems and we don't need further
- * synchronization as they never go away.
- */
- if (!ss || ss->module)
- continue;
-
if (ss->fork)
ss->fork(child);
}
@@ -5015,13 +5015,13 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int run_callbacks)
tsk->cgroups = &init_css_set;
if (run_callbacks && need_forkexit_callback) {
- for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
+ /*
+ * fork/exit callbacks are supported only for builtin
+ * subsystems, see cgroup_post_fork() for details.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
- /* modular subsystems can't use callbacks */
- if (!ss || ss->module)
- continue;
-
if (ss->exit) {
struct cgroup *old_cgrp =
rcu_dereference_raw(cg->subsys[i])->cgroup;