From 65dff759d2948cf18e2029fc5c0c595b8b7da3a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:01:56 +0800 Subject: cgroup: fix cgroup_path() vs rename() race rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold a longer name. As accessing dentry->name must be protected by dentry->d_lock or parent inode's i_mutex, while on the other hand cgroup-path() can be called with some irq-safe spinlocks held, we can't generate cgroup path using dentry->d_name. Alternatively we make a copy of dentry->d_name and save it in cgrp->name when a cgroup is created, and update cgrp->name at rename(). v5: use flexible array instead of zero-size array. v4: - allocate root_cgroup_name and all root_cgroup->name points to it. - add cgroup_name() wrapper. v3: use kfree_rcu() instead of synchronize_rcu() in user-visible path. v2: make cgrp->name RCU safe. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- block/blk-cgroup.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h index f2b292925cc..4e595ee8c91 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.h +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h @@ -247,9 +247,7 @@ static inline int blkg_path(struct blkcg_gq *blkg, char *buf, int buflen) { int ret; - rcu_read_lock(); ret = cgroup_path(blkg->blkcg->css.cgroup, buf, buflen); - rcu_read_unlock(); if (ret) strncpy(buf, "", buflen); return ret; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2