From 2c641f5b0c8e87d43235ce39890bcc4d0c7cd2fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martijn Coenen Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:57:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: only free spare array when readers are done [ Upstream commit 6611d8d76132f86faa501de9451a89bf23fb2371 ] A spare array holding mem cgroup threshold events is kept around to make sure we can always safely deregister an event and have an array to store the new set of events in. In the scenario where we're going from 1 to 0 registered events, the pointer to the primary array containing 1 event is copied to the spare slot, and then the spare slot is freed because no events are left. However, it is freed before calling synchronize_rcu(), which means readers may still be accessing threshold->primary after it is freed. Fixed by only freeing after synchronize_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen Cc: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- mm/memcontrol.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 68dea90..aac1c98 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3824,16 +3824,17 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, swap_buffers: /* Swap primary and spare array */ thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary; - /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */ - if (!new) { - kfree(thresholds->spare); - thresholds->spare = NULL; - } rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new); /* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */ synchronize_rcu(); + + /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */ + if (!new) { + kfree(thresholds->spare); + thresholds->spare = NULL; + } unlock: mutex_unlock(&memcg->thresholds_lock); } -- 2.7.4