[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:41:10 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race

commit 1c8158eeae0f37d0eee9f1fbe68080df6a408df2 upstream.

 commit 5db9a4d99b0157a513944e9a44d29c9cec2e91dc
 Author: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
 Date:   Sat Jul 7 16:08:18 2012 -0700

     cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount race

This commit fixed a race caused by the dput() in css_dput_fn(), but
the dput() in cgroup_event_remove() can also lead to the same BUG().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.8: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index b6a1f62..754b917 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -3755,6 +3755,23 @@ static int cgroup_write_notify_on_release(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 }

 /*
+ * When dput() is called asynchronously, if umount has been done and
+ * then deactivate_super() in cgroup_free_fn() kills the superblock,
+ * there's a small window that vfs will see the root dentry with non-zero
+ * refcnt and trigger BUG().
+ *
+ * That's why we hold a reference before dput() and drop it right after.
+ */
+static void cgroup_dput(struct cgroup *cgrp)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = cgrp->root->sb;
+
+	atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
+	dput(cgrp->dentry);
+	deactivate_super(sb);
+}
+
+/*
  * Unregister event and free resources.
  *
  * Gets called from workqueue.
@@ -3769,7 +3786,7 @@ static void cgroup_event_remove(struct work_struct *work)

 	eventfd_ctx_put(event->eventfd);
 	kfree(event);
-	dput(cgrp->dentry);
+	cgroup_dput(cgrp);
 }

 /*
@@ -4031,12 +4048,8 @@ static void css_dput_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css =
 		container_of(work, struct cgroup_subsys_state, dput_work);
-	struct dentry *dentry = css->cgroup->dentry;
-	struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;

-	atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
-	dput(dentry);
-	deactivate_super(sb);
+	cgroup_dput(css->cgroup);
 }

 static void init_cgroup_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
--
1.8.1.2