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cgroups: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely r…
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This fixes an oops when reading /proc/sched_debug.

A cgroup won't be removed completely until finishing cgroup_diput(), so we
shouldn't invalidate cgrp->dentry in cgroup_rmdir().  Otherwise, when a
group is being removed while cgroup_path() gets called, we may trigger
NULL dereference BUG.

The bug can be reproduced:

 # cat test.sh
 #!/bin/sh
 mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /mnt
 for (( ; ; ))
 {
	mkdir /mnt/sub
	rmdir /mnt/sub
 }
 # ./test.sh &
 # cat /proc/sched_debug

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038
IP: [<c045a47f>] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90
...
Call Trace:
 [<c0420344>] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d
 [<c0421160>] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e
...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Li Zefan authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 6, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -2497,7 +2497,6 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry)
list_del(&cgrp->sibling);
spin_lock(&cgrp->dentry->d_lock);
d = dget(cgrp->dentry);
cgrp->dentry = NULL;
spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);

cgroup_d_remove_dir(d);
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