cgroup: avoid accessing modular cgroup subsys structure without locking
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Tue, 5 Mar 2013 02:57:03 +0000 (10:57 +0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:33:25 +0000 (09:33 -0800)
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>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c

index 75c6ec1ba1ba5b61e51eb9c4e44a8089ab7e78f0..5f76829dd75e19f49b0c716d353dd8f3f8df34a7 100644 (file)
@@ -44,14 +44,25 @@ extern void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss);
 
 extern const struct file_operations proc_cgroup_operations;
 
-/* Define the enumeration of all builtin cgroup subsystems */
+/*
+ * Define the enumeration of all cgroup subsystems.
+ *
+ * We define ids for builtin subsystems and then modular ones.
+ */
 #define SUBSYS(_x) _x ## _subsys_id,
-#define IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED(option) IS_ENABLED(option)
 enum cgroup_subsys_id {
+#define IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED(option) IS_BUILTIN(option)
+#include <linux/cgroup_subsys.h>
+#undef IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED
+       CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT,
+
+       __CGROUP_SUBSYS_TEMP_PLACEHOLDER = CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT - 1,
+
+#define IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED(option) IS_MODULE(option)
 #include <linux/cgroup_subsys.h>
+#undef IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED
        CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT,
 };
-#undef IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED
 #undef SUBSYS
 
 /* Per-subsystem/per-cgroup state maintained by the system. */
index 9df799d5d31c0d3465537a82889f8acd43a974da..7a6c4c72ca55e5510c8ac47e2774cec7f4272be4 100644 (file)
@@ -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;