JP Kobryn eea51c6e3f cgroup: avoid null de-ref in css_rstat_exit()
css_rstat_exit() may be called asynchronously in scenarios where preceding
calls to css_rstat_init() have not completed. One such example is this
sequence below:

css_create(...)
{
	...
	init_and_link_css(css, ...);

	err = percpu_ref_init(...);
	if (err)
		goto err_free_css;
	err = cgroup_idr_alloc(...);
	if (err)
		goto err_free_css;
	err = css_rstat_init(css, ...);
	if (err)
		goto err_free_css;
	...
err_free_css:
	INIT_RCU_WORK(&css->destroy_rwork, css_free_rwork_fn);
	queue_rcu_work(cgroup_destroy_wq, &css->destroy_rwork);
	return ERR_PTR(err);
}

If any of the three goto jumps are taken, async cleanup will begin and
css_rstat_exit() will be invoked on an uninitialized css->rstat_cpu.

Avoid accessing the unitialized field by returning early in
css_rstat_exit() if this is the case.

Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Fixes: 5da3bfa029 ("cgroup: use separate rstat trees for each subsystem")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.16
Reported-by: syzbot+8d052e8b99e40bc625ed@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-08-09 08:46:32 -10:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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