Re: [PATCH-block v3 1/2] bdi, blk-cgroup: Fix potential UAF of blkcg

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 01:44:45PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> Commit 59b57717fff8 ("blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after
> writeback has finished") delayed call to blkcg_destroy_blkgs() to
> cgwb_release_workfn(). However, it is done after a css_put() of blkcg
> which may be the final put that causes the blkcg to be freed as RCU
> read lock isn't held.
> 
> Another place where blkcg_destroy_blkgs() can be called indirectly via
> blkcg_unpin_online() is from the offline_css() function called from
> css_killed_work_fn(). Over there, the potentially final css_put() call
> is issued after offline_css().
> 
> By adding a css_tryget() into blkcg_destroy_blkgs() and warning its
> failure, the following stack trace was produced in a test system on
> bootup.

This doesn't agree with the code anymore. Otherwise

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun