From 71b5707e119653039e6e95213f00479668c79b75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:43:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix exit() vs rmdir() race In cgroup_exit() put_css_set_taskexit() is called without any lock, which might lead to accessing a freed cgroup: thread1 thread2 --------------------------------------------- exit() cgroup_exit() put_css_set_taskexit() atomic_dec(cgrp->count); rmdir(); /* not safe !! */ check_for_release(cgrp); rcu_read_lock() can be used to make sure the cgroup is alive. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- Reading git-format-patch failed