linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: don't queue css_release

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Date:   Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:43:17 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
Cc:     Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+e42ae441c3b10acf9e9d@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: don't queue css_release_work if one already
 pending

Hello,

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:51:18AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> What happened was, the write triggered:
> cgroup_subtree_control_write()->cgroup_apply_control()->cgroup_apply_control_enable()->css_create()
> 
> which, allocates and initializes the css, then fails in cgroup_idr_alloc(),
> bails out and calls queue_rcu_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_rwork);

Yes, but this css hasn't been installed yet.

> then cgroup_subtree_control_write() bails out to out_unlock:, which then goes:
> 
> cgroup_kn_unlock()->cgroup_put()->css_put()->percpu_ref_put(&css->refcnt)->percpu_ref_put_many(ref)

And this is a different css. cgroup->self which isn't connected to the half
built css which got destroyed in css_create().

So, I have a bit of difficulty following this scenario. The way that the
current code uses destroy_work is definitely nasty and it'd probably be a
good idea to separate out the different use cases, but let's first
understand what's failing.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun