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Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's to avoid use-afer-free

From Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's to avoid use-afer-free
Date 2015-11-23 23:30 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
 > A css_set represents the relationship between a set of tasks and
 > css's.  css_set never pinned the associated css's.  This was okay
 > because tasks used to always disassociate immediately (in RCU sense) -
 > either a task is moved to a different css_set or exits and never
 > accesses css_set again.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, afcf6c8b7544 ("cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->free() method
 > and use it to fix pids controller") and patches leading up to it made
 > a zombie hold onto its css_set and deref the associated css's on its
 > release.  Nothing pins the css's after exit and it might have already
 > been freed leading to use-after-free.
 > 
 > Fix it by making css_set pin the associate css's until its release.

This gets me booting again, thanks Tejun!

	Dave
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[PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's to  avoid use-afer-free Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-23 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's  to avoid use-afer-free Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> - 2015-11-23 23:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's  to avoid use-afer-free Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> - 2015-11-24 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's  to avoid use-afer-free Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 15:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's  to avoid use-afer-free Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> - 2015-11-24 16:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's  to avoid use-afer-free Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 16:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4-fixes] cgroup: make css_set pin its css's  to avoid use-afer-free Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-30 15:50 +0100

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