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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2013-12-12 23:17:08 +0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-12-13 15:46:49 -0500
commit10bf2f7e7db993273419ca9f51f5934e4cf71768 (patch)
tree3d6f820b4409859fc97e4dfc8a3c90d936d27b24 /kernel/cgroup.c
parent0be8669dd530f60cf3f59f084518570c1dfb47ee (diff)
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cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys()
Calling cgroup_unload_subsys() from cgroup_load_subsys() after online_css() failure will result in a NULL ptr dereference on attempt to offline_css(), because online_css() only assigns css to cgroup on success. Let's fix that by skipping calls to offline_css() and css_free() in cgroup_unload_subsys() if there is no css, and freeing css in cgroup_load_subsys() on online_css() failure. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 402f7aab8b2d..7030f04f2890 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4652,8 +4652,10 @@ int __init_or_module cgroup_load_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
write_unlock(&css_set_lock);
ret = online_css(css);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ ss->css_free(css);
goto err_unload;
+ }
/* success! */
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_root_mutex);
@@ -4680,6 +4682,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_load_subsys);
void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
{
struct cgrp_cset_link *link;
+ struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
BUG_ON(ss->module == NULL);
@@ -4693,7 +4696,9 @@ void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
mutex_lock(&cgroup_root_mutex);
- offline_css(cgroup_css(cgroup_dummy_top, ss));
+ css = cgroup_css(cgroup_dummy_top, ss);
+ if (css)
+ offline_css(css);
/* deassign the subsys_id */
cgroup_subsys[ss->subsys_id] = NULL;
@@ -4720,7 +4725,8 @@ void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
* need to free before marking as null because ss->css_free needs
* the cgrp->subsys pointer to find their state.
*/
- ss->css_free(cgroup_css(cgroup_dummy_top, ss));
+ if (css)
+ ss->css_free(css);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(cgroup_dummy_top->subsys[ss->subsys_id], NULL);
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_root_mutex);