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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-02-18 14:48:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-18 15:37:54 -0800
commit67e055d144c5b2acdc1c63811fde031263bf92c5 (patch)
tree6bdb0af25cc30d7bc8a8d54db3625f8486c2f5f9 /kernel
parent1cf6e7d83bf334cc5916137862c920a97aabc018 (diff)
cgroups: fix possible use after free
In cgroup_kill_sb(), root is freed before sb is detached from the list, so another sget() may find this sb and call cgroup_test_super(), which will access the root that has been freed. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index e14db9c089b9..9edb5c4b79b4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1122,8 +1122,8 @@ static void cgroup_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb) {
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
- kfree(root);
kill_litter_super(sb);
+ kfree(root);
}
static struct file_system_type cgroup_fs_type = {