On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:44 PM Zefan Li <lize...@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
>
> Thanks for fixing this.
>
> On 2020/6/17 2:03, Cong Wang wrote:
> > When we clone a socket in sk_clone_lock(), its sk_cgrp_data is
> > copied, so the cgroup refcnt must be taken too. And, unlike the
> > sk_alloc() path, sock_update_netprioidx() is not called here.
> > Therefore, it is safe and necessary to grab the cgroup refcnt
> > even when cgroup_sk_alloc is disabled.
> >
> > sk_clone_lock() is in BH context anyway, the in_interrupt()
> > would terminate this function if called there. And for sk_alloc()
> > skcd->val is always zero. So it's safe to factor out the code
> > to make it more readable.
> >
> > Fixes: 090e28b229af92dc5b ("netprio_cgroup: Fix unlimited memory leak of v2
> > cgroups")
>
> but I don't think the bug was introduced by this commit, because there
> are already calls to cgroup_sk_alloc_disable() in write_priomap() and
> write_classid(), which can be triggered by writing to ifpriomap or
> classid in cgroupfs. This commit just made it much easier to happen
> with systemd invovled.
>
> I think it's 4bfc0bb2c60e2f4c ("bpf: decouple the lifetime of cgroup_bpf from
> cgroup itself"),
> which added cgroup_bpf_get() in cgroup_sk_alloc().
Good point.
I take a deeper look, it looks like commit d979a39d7242e06
is the one to blame, because it is the first commit that began to
hold cgroup refcnt in cgroup_sk_alloc().
The commit you mentioned above merely adds a refcnt for
cgroup bpf on to of cgroup refcnt.
Thanks.
