linux-kernel - [ 065/173] cgroup: remove incorrect dget/dput() pair in cgroup_create

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Message-Id: <20121228190343.769288215@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:04:35 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: [ 065/173] cgroup: remove incorrect dget/dput() pair in cgroup_create_dir()

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

commit 175431635ec09b1d1bba04979b006b99e8305a83 upstream.

cgroup_create_dir() does weird dancing with dentry refcnt.  On
success, it gets and then puts it achieving nothing.  On failure, it
puts but there isn't no matching get anywhere leading to the following
oops if cgroup_create_file() fails for whatever reason.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at /work/os/work/fs/dcache.c:552!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in:
  CPU 2
  Pid: 697, comm: mkdir Not tainted 3.7.0-rc4-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811d9c0c>]  [<ffffffff811d9c0c>] dput+0x1dc/0x1e0
  RSP: 0018:ffff88001a3ebef8  EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000e5b1ef8 RCX: 0000000000000403
  RDX: 0000000000000303 RSI: 2000000000000000 RDI: ffff88000e5b1f58
  RBP: ffff88001a3ebf18 R08: ffffffff82c76960 R09: 0000000000000001
  R10: ffff880015022080 R11: ffd9bed70f48a041 R12: 00000000ffffffea
  R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88000e5b1f58 R15: 00007fff57656d60
  FS:  00007ff05fcb3800(0000) GS:ffff88001fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000004046f0 CR3: 000000001315f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process mkdir (pid: 697, threadinfo ffff88001a3ea000, task ffff880015022080)
  Stack:
   ffff88001a3ebf48 00000000ffffffea 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
   ffff88001a3ebf38 ffffffff811cc889 0000000000000001 ffff88000e5b1ef8
   ffff88001a3ebf68 ffffffff811d1fc9 ffff8800198d7f18 ffff880019106ef8
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff811cc889>] done_path_create+0x19/0x50
   [<ffffffff811d1fc9>] sys_mkdirat+0x59/0x80
   [<ffffffff811d2009>] sys_mkdir+0x19/0x20
   [<ffffffff81be1e02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  Code: 00 48 8d 90 18 01 00 00 48 89 93 c0 00 00 00 4c 89 a0 18 01 00 00 48 8b 83 a0 00 00 00 83 80 28 01 00 00 01 e8 e6 6f a0 00 eb 92 <0f> 0b 66 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 49 89 fe 41
  RIP  [<ffffffff811d9c0c>] dput+0x1dc/0x1e0
   RSP <ffff88001a3ebef8>
  ---[ end trace 1277bcfd9561ddb0 ]---

Fix it by dropping the unnecessary dget/dput() pair.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 0f8fa6a..d0803f0 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2684,9 +2684,7 @@ static int cgroup_create_dir(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct dentry *dentry,
 		dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp;
 		inc_nlink(parent->d_inode);
 		rcu_assign_pointer(cgrp->dentry, dentry);
-		dget(dentry);
 	}
-	dput(dentry);
 
 	return error;
 }


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