If for some reason, the newly allocated child need to be freed, we will call cgroup_put() (via sk_free_unlock_clone()) while the corresponding cgroup_get() was not yet done, and we will free memory too soon.
Fixes: d979a39d7242 ("cgroup: duplicate cgroup reference when cloning sockets") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> --- net/core/sock.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index 70c6ccbdf49f2f8a5a0f7c41c7849ea01459be50..415f441c63b9e2ff8feb010f44ca27303c72aaa1 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -1687,6 +1687,7 @@ struct sock *sk_clone_lock(const struct sock *sk, const gfp_t priority) atomic_set(&newsk->sk_zckey, 0); sock_reset_flag(newsk, SOCK_DONE); + cgroup_sk_alloc(&newsk->sk_cgrp_data); rcu_read_lock(); filter = rcu_dereference(sk->sk_filter); @@ -1718,8 +1719,6 @@ struct sock *sk_clone_lock(const struct sock *sk, const gfp_t priority) newsk->sk_incoming_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); atomic64_set(&newsk->sk_cookie, 0); - cgroup_sk_alloc(&newsk->sk_cgrp_data); - /* * Before updating sk_refcnt, we must commit prior changes to memory * (Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt for details) -- 2.15.0.rc0.271.g36b669edcc-goog