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Commit 8b0ed844 authored by Muchun Song's avatar Muchun Song Committed by Jan Kara
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writeback: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg css

The caller of wb_get_create() should pin the memcg, because
wb_get_create() relies on this guarantee. The rcu read lock
only can guarantee that the memcg css returned by css_from_id()
cannot be released, but the reference of the memcg can be zero.

  rcu_read_lock()
  memcg_css = css_from_id()
  wb_get_create(memcg_css)
      cgwb_create(memcg_css)
          // css_get can change the ref counter from 0 back to 1
          css_get(memcg_css)
  rcu_read_unlock()

Fix it by holding a reference to the css before calling
wb_get_create(). This is not a problem I encountered in the
real world. Just the result of a code review.

Fixes: 682aa8e1 ("writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402091145.80635-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent ce1b06c5
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