linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET block/for-linus] blkcg: blkcg_policy

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:28:22 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	vgoyal@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	avanzini.arianna@...il.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET block/for-linus] blkcg: blkcg_policy_data fixes

On 07/09/2015 02:39 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> During 4.2-rc1 merge window, e48453c386f3 ("block, cgroup: implement
> policy-specific per-blkcg data") got merged.  It had several bugs and
> a322baad1003 ("block/blk-cgroup.c: free per-blkcg data when freeing
> the blkcg") fixed one of them but there are still a couple remaining.
>
> * blkcg_policy[] iteration during css_alloc isn't protected.
>
> * Lazy allocation scheme is broken and policy data may be missing or
>    an old policy data may get reused by the wrong policy.
>
> This patchset contains the following four patches to fix the above
> issues.
>
>   0001-blkcg-allow-blkcg_pol_mutex-to-be-grabbed-from-cgrou.patch
>   0002-blkcg-blkcg_css_alloc-should-grab-blkcg_pol_mutex-wh.patch
>   0003-blkcg-implement-all_blkcgs-list.patch
>   0004-blkcg-fix-blkcg_policy_data-allocation-bug.patch
>
> 0001 and 0003 are prep patches.  0002 and 0004 are the fixes.
>
> This patchset is on top of block/for-linus a322baad1003
> ("block/blk-cgroup.c: free per-blkcg data when freeing the blkcg") and
> available in the following git branch.
>
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git review-blkcg-cpd-fixes
>
> diffstat follows, thanks.

Applied, thanks Tejun.

-- 
Jens Axboe

--
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/