linux-kernel - Re: 3.5-rc3: BUG: Dentry still in use (1) [unmount of cgroup cgroup]

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:34:21 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, shyju pv <shyju.pv@...wei.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sanil kumar <sanil.kumar@...wei.com>,
	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 3.5-rc3: BUG: Dentry still in use (1) [unmount of cgroup cgroup]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:04:36AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Al.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:13:02PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> >> So it's bad to have dentry refcnts dangling after umount.
> >
> > No shit. ?Yes, it is bad. ?What on the Earth is cgroup code doing with
> > those? ?And what could it possibly want to do with dentry reference
> > after the filesystem has been shut down, assuming it could hold one
> > in the first place?
> 
> cgroup interface code was copied from sysfs back when it was
> piggybacking internal data structures to dentries, so, unfortunately,
> sysfs is still using dentries to manage internal data structures and
> propagates internal refs to dentry refs. There seem to be several
> places where dentry ref is held w/o active super ref triggering BUG on
> umount. Longer term, it should be updated to share sysfs code, I
> guess.

Now that I've looked at that code again...  What's the story with
                simple_unlink(d->d_inode, d);
in cgroup_rm_file()?  Wrong parent inode, at the very least...

While we are at it, what the hell is going on in
static void cgroup_clear_directory(struct dentry *dir)
{
        struct cgroup *cgrp = __d_cgrp(dir);

        while (!list_empty(&cgrp->files))
                cgroup_rm_file(cgrp, NULL);
}
Are you fighting some kind of race against somebody adding stuff
there?  Unless I'm seriously misreading cgroup_rm_file(), it'll
do all the work on the first call...
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/