Re: [PATCH] cgroups: fix a serious bug in cgroupstats

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:14:41 +0800 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Try this, and you'll get oops immediately:

I guess that's wrong.

>  # cd Documentation/accounting/
>  # gcc -o getdelays getdelays.c
>  # mount -t cgroup -o debug xxx /mnt
>  # ./getdelays -C /mnt/tasks
> 
> Because a normal file's dentry->d_fsdata is a pointer to struct cftype,
> not struct cgroup.
> 
> After the patch, it returns EINVAL if we try to get cgroupstats
> from a normal file.
> 
> CC: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  kernel/cgroup.c |    7 +++++--
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 358e775..f6f5219 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -2039,10 +2039,13 @@ 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;

The patch applies OK to 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and to 2.6.27.  I marked it as
needing backport to those kernel versions.  Please let me know if that
was inappropriate.