From d6cbf35dac8a3dadb9103379820c96d7c85df3d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:20 +0800 Subject: cgroup: initialize xattr before calling d_instantiate() cgroup_create_file() calls d_instantiate(), which may decide to look at the xattrs on the file. Smack always does this and SELinux can be configured to do so. But cgroup_add_file() didn't initialize xattrs before calling cgroup_create_file(), which finally leads to dereferencing NULL dentry->d_fsdata. This bug has been there since cgroup xattr was introduced. Cc: # 3.8.x Reported-by: Ivan Bulatovic Reported-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/cgroup.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 2a9926275f80..38b136553044 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2699,13 +2699,14 @@ static int cgroup_add_file(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys, goto out; } + cfe->type = (void *)cft; + cfe->dentry = dentry; + dentry->d_fsdata = cfe; + simple_xattrs_init(&cfe->xattrs); + mode = cgroup_file_mode(cft); error = cgroup_create_file(dentry, mode | S_IFREG, cgrp->root->sb); if (!error) { - cfe->type = (void *)cft; - cfe->dentry = dentry; - dentry->d_fsdata = cfe; - simple_xattrs_init(&cfe->xattrs); list_add_tail(&cfe->node, &parent->files); cfe = NULL; } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2