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Commit 201e72ac authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo
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device_cgroup: fix RCU usage



dev_cgroup->exceptions is protected with devcgroup_mutex for writes
and RCU for reads; however, RCU usage isn't correct.

* dev_exception_clean() doesn't use RCU variant of list_del() and
  kfree().  The function can race with may_access() and may_access()
  may end up dereferencing already freed memory.  Use list_del_rcu()
  and kfree_rcu() instead.

* may_access() may be called only with RCU read locked but doesn't use
  RCU safe traversal over ->exceptions.  Use list_for_each_entry_rcu().

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
parent 64e10477
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