[PATCH 2/2] cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't freed before its children

[Tejun Heo]

There are three subsystem callbacks in css shutdown path -
css_offline(), css_released() and css_free().  Except for
css_released(), cgroup core didn't use to guarantee the order of
invocation.  css_offline() or css_free() could be called on a parent
css before its children.  This behavior is unexpected and led to
use-after-free in cpu controller.

The previous patch updated ordering for css_offline() which fixes the
cpu controller issue.  While there currently isn't a known bug caused
by misordering of css_free() invocations, let's fix it too for
consistency.

css_free() ordering can be trivially fixed by moving putting of the
parent css below css_free() invocation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4657,14 +4657,15 @@ static void css_free_work_fn(struct work
 
 	if (ss) {
 		/* css free path */
+		struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent = css->parent;
 		int id = css->id;
 
-		if (css->parent)
-			css_put(css->parent);
-
 		ss->css_free(css);
 		cgroup_idr_remove(&ss->css_idr, id);
 		cgroup_put(cgrp);
+
+		if (parent)
+			css_put(parent);
 	} else {
 		/* cgroup free path */
 		atomic_dec(&cgrp->root->nr_cgrps);