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-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index d68bf2bc5cae..0ba3a5a1a12e 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2045,10 +2045,13 @@ int cgroupstats_build(struct cgroupstats *stats, struct dentry *dentry)
struct cgroup *cgrp;
struct cgroup_iter it;
struct task_struct *tsk;
+
/*
- * Validate dentry by checking the superblock operations
+ * Validate dentry by checking the superblock operations,
+ * and make sure it's a directory.
*/
- if (dentry->d_sb->s_op != &cgroup_ops)
+ if (dentry->d_sb->s_op != &cgroup_ops ||
+ !S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
goto err;
ret = 0;