Re: [PATCH] cgroup: always put cset in cgroup_css_set_put_fork

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon May 22 2023 - 21:00:47 EST


On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 07:29:53PM +0000, John Sperbeck wrote:
> A successful call to cgroup_css_set_fork() will always have taken
> a ref on kargs->cset (regardless of CLONE_INTO_CGROUP), so always
> do a corresponding put in cgroup_css_set_put_fork().
>
> Without this, a cset and its contained css structures will be
> leaked for some fork failures. The following script reproduces
> the leak for a fork failure due to exceeding pids.max in the
> pids controller. A similar thing can happen if we jump to the
> bad_fork_cancel_cgroup label in copy_process().
>
> [ -z "$1" ] && echo "Usage $0 pids-root" && exit 1
> PID_ROOT=$1
> CGROUP=$PID_ROOT/foo
>
> [ -e $CGROUP ] && rmdir -f $CGROUP
> mkdir $CGROUP
> echo 5 > $CGROUP/pids.max
> echo $$ > $CGROUP/cgroup.procs
>
> fork_bomb()
> {
> set -e
> for i in $(seq 10); do
> /bin/sleep 3600 &
> done
> }
>
> (fork_bomb) &
> wait
> echo $$ > $PID_ROOT/cgroup.procs
> kill $(cat $CGROUP/cgroup.procs)
> rmdir $CGROUP
>
> Fixes: ef2c41cf38a7 ("clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups")
> Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to cgroup/for-6.4-fixes w/ stable cc'd.

Thanks.

--
tejun