writeback: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg css
authorMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Fri, 2 Apr 2021 09:11:45 +0000 (17:11 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:21:03 +0000 (16:21 +0200)
commit91f805f97bd97cf9ff84199c0b170cd1911e17fd
treecd596a0709c6fbd10e8f11a7a80b640892f9908e
parent07fc71a4f42ae8530187f62850a98573ae5b7537
writeback: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg css

[ Upstream commit 8b0ed8443ae6458786580d36b7d5f8125535c5d4 ]

The caller of wb_get_create() should pin the memcg, because
wb_get_create() relies on this guarantee. The rcu read lock
only can guarantee that the memcg css returned by css_from_id()
cannot be released, but the reference of the memcg can be zero.

  rcu_read_lock()
  memcg_css = css_from_id()
  wb_get_create(memcg_css)
      cgwb_create(memcg_css)
          // css_get can change the ref counter from 0 back to 1
          css_get(memcg_css)
  rcu_read_unlock()

Fix it by holding a reference to the css before calling
wb_get_create(). This is not a problem I encountered in the
real world. Just the result of a code review.

Fixes: 682aa8e1a6a1 ("writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402091145.80635-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c