From: Phil Carmody Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:30:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: cgroups: if you list_empty() a head then don't list_del() it X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37.6~46 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f21113fe11e957ac68b8fab8faf728ca06dd1ca;p=karo-tx-linux.git cgroups: if you list_empty() a head then don't list_del() it commit 8d2587970b8bdf7c8d9208e3f4bb93182aef1a0f upstream. list_del() leaves poison in the prev and next pointers. The next list_empty() will compare those poisons, and say the list isn't empty. Any list operations that assume the node is on a list because of such a check will be fooled into dereferencing poison. One needs to INIT the node after the del, and fortunately there's already a wrapper for that - list_del_init(). Some of the dels are followed by deallocations, so can be ignored, and one can be merged with an add to make a move. Apart from that, I erred on the side of caution in making nodes list_empty()-queriable. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Li Zefan Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 66a416b42c18..a328a7513634 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1791,10 +1791,8 @@ int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk) /* Update the css_set linked lists if we're using them */ write_lock(&css_set_lock); - if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) { - list_del(&tsk->cg_list); - list_add(&tsk->cg_list, &newcg->tasks); - } + if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) + list_move(&tsk->cg_list, &newcg->tasks); write_unlock(&css_set_lock); for_each_subsys(root, ss) { @@ -3630,12 +3628,12 @@ again: spin_lock(&release_list_lock); set_bit(CGRP_REMOVED, &cgrp->flags); if (!list_empty(&cgrp->release_list)) - list_del(&cgrp->release_list); + list_del_init(&cgrp->release_list); spin_unlock(&release_list_lock); cgroup_lock_hierarchy(cgrp->root); /* delete this cgroup from parent->children */ - list_del(&cgrp->sibling); + list_del_init(&cgrp->sibling); cgroup_unlock_hierarchy(cgrp->root); spin_lock(&cgrp->dentry->d_lock); @@ -3856,7 +3854,7 @@ void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss) subsys[ss->subsys_id] = NULL; /* remove subsystem from rootnode's list of subsystems */ - list_del(&ss->sibling); + list_del_init(&ss->sibling); /* * disentangle the css from all css_sets attached to the dummytop. as @@ -4230,7 +4228,7 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int run_callbacks) if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) { write_lock(&css_set_lock); if (!list_empty(&tsk->cg_list)) - list_del(&tsk->cg_list); + list_del_init(&tsk->cg_list); write_unlock(&css_set_lock); }