linux/fs/kernfs
Minchan Kim 555a0ce455 kernfs: prevent early freeing of root node
Marek reported the warning below.

  =========================
  WARNING: held lock freed!
  5.16.0-rc2+ #10984 Not tainted
  -------------------------
  kworker/1:0/18 is freeing memory ffff00004034e200-ffff00004034e3ff,
with a lock still held there!
  ffff00004034e348 (&root->kernfs_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at:
__kernfs_remove+0x310/0x37c
  3 locks held by kworker/1:0/18:
   #0: ffff000040107938 ((wq_completion)cgroup_destroy){+.+.}-{0:0}, at:
process_one_work+0x1f0/0x6f0
   #1: ffff80000b55bdc0
((work_completion)(&(&css->destroy_rwork)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at:
process_one_work+0x1f0/0x6f0
   #2: ffff00004034e348 (&root->kernfs_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at:
__kernfs_remove+0x310/0x37c

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 1 PID: 18 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc2+ #10984
  Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (DT)
  Workqueue: cgroup_destroy css_free_rwork_fn
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1ac
   show_stack+0x18/0x24
   dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
   dump_stack+0x18/0x34
   debug_check_no_locks_freed+0x124/0x140
   kfree+0xf0/0x3a4
   kernfs_put+0x1f8/0x224
   __kernfs_remove+0x1b8/0x37c
   kernfs_destroy_root+0x38/0x50
   css_free_rwork_fn+0x288/0x3d4
   process_one_work+0x288/0x6f0
   worker_thread+0x74/0x470
   kthread+0x188/0x194
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Since kernfs moves the kernfs_rwsem lock into root, it couldn't hold
the lock when the root node is tearing down. Thus, get the refcount
of root node.

Fixes: 393c371408 ("kernfs: switch global kernfs_rwsem lock to per-fs lock")
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201231648.1027165-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-03 14:36:21 +01:00
..
dir.c kernfs: prevent early freeing of root node 2021-12-03 14:36:21 +01:00
file.c kernfs: switch global kernfs_rwsem lock to per-fs lock 2021-11-24 13:55:16 +01:00
inode.c kernfs: switch global kernfs_rwsem lock to per-fs lock 2021-11-24 13:55:16 +01:00
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
kernfs-internal.h kernfs: switch kernfs to use an rwsem 2021-07-27 09:29:15 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
mount.c kernfs: switch global kernfs_rwsem lock to per-fs lock 2021-11-24 13:55:16 +01:00
symlink.c kernfs: switch global kernfs_rwsem lock to per-fs lock 2021-11-24 13:55:16 +01:00