blk-cgroup: defer blkcg css_put until blkg is unlinked from queue

[BUG]
Our fuzz testing triggered a blkcg use-after-free issue:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock+0x75/0xe0
  Call Trace:
  ...
  blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x244/0x4d0
  ioc_rqos_exit+0x44/0xe0
  rq_qos_exit+0xba/0x120
  __del_gendisk+0x50b/0x800
  del_gendisk+0xff/0x190
  ...

[CAUSE]
process1						process2
cgroup_rmdir
...
  css_killed_work_fn
    offline_css
    ...
      blkcg_destroy_blkgs
      ...
        __blkg_release
	  css_put(&blkg->blkcg->css)
          blkg_free
	    INIT_WORK(xxx, blkg_free_workfn)
	    schedule_work
    css_put
    ...
      blkcg_css_free
        kfree(blkcg)--------blkcg has been freed!!!
====================================schedule_work
              blkg_free_workfn
							__del_gendisk
							  rq_qos_exit
							    ioc_rqos_exit
							      blkcg_deactivate_policy
							        mutex_lock(&q->blkcg_mutex)
								spin_lock_irq(&q->queue_lock)
							        list_for_each_entry(blkg, xxx)
								  blkcg = blkg->blkcg
								  spin_lock(&blkcg->lock)-------UAF!!!
	        mutex_lock(&q->blkcg_mutex)
	        spin_lock_irq(&q->queue_lock)
	        /* Only then is the blkg removed from the list */
	        list_del_init(&blkg->q_node)

As a result, a blkg can still be reachable through q->blkg_list while
its ->blkcg has already been freed.

[Fix]
Fix this by deferring the blkcg css_put() until after the blkg has been
unlinked from q->blkg_list in blkg_free_workfn(). This ensures that the
blkcg outlives every blkg still reachable through q->blkg_list, so any
iterator holding q->queue_lock is guaranteed to observe a valid
blkg->blkcg.

While at it, move css_tryget_online() from blkg_create() into blkg_alloc()
so that the css reference is owned by the alloc/free pair rather than
straddling layers:
blkg_alloc()  <-> blkg_free()
blkg_create() <-> blkg_destroy()

Fixes: f1c006f1c6 ("blk-cgroup: synchronize pd_free_fn() from blkg_free_workfn() and blkcg_deactivate_policy()")
Suggested-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fygo.io>
Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616011746.2451461-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This commit is contained in:
Zizhi Wo 2026-06-16 09:17:46 +08:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 0ab5ee5a1b
commit 3ed9b4779a

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@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ static void blkg_free_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
spin_unlock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
mutex_unlock(&q->blkcg_mutex);
/*
* Release blkcg css ref only after blkg is removed from q->blkg_list,
* so concurrent iterators won't see a blkg with a freed blkcg.
*/
css_put(&blkg->blkcg->css);
blk_put_queue(q);
free_percpu(blkg->iostat_cpu);
percpu_ref_exit(&blkg->refcnt);
@ -169,8 +174,6 @@ static void __blkg_release(struct rcu_head *rcu)
WARN_ON(!bio_list_empty(&blkg->async_bios));
#endif
/* release the blkcg and parent blkg refs this blkg has been holding */
css_put(&blkg->blkcg->css);
blkg_free(blkg);
}
@ -314,6 +317,9 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_alloc(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
goto out_exit_refcnt;
if (!blk_get_queue(disk->queue))
goto out_free_iostat;
/* blkg holds a reference to blkcg */
if (!css_tryget_online(&blkcg->css))
goto out_put_queue;
blkg->q = disk->queue;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkg->q_node);
@ -354,6 +360,8 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_alloc(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
while (--i >= 0)
if (blkg->pd[i])
blkcg_policy[i]->pd_free_fn(blkg->pd[i]);
css_put(&blkcg->css);
out_put_queue:
blk_put_queue(disk->queue);
out_free_iostat:
free_percpu(blkg->iostat_cpu);
@ -382,18 +390,12 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
goto err_free_blkg;
}
/* blkg holds a reference to blkcg */
if (!css_tryget_online(&blkcg->css)) {
ret = -ENODEV;
goto err_free_blkg;
}
/* allocate */
if (!new_blkg) {
new_blkg = blkg_alloc(blkcg, disk, GFP_NOWAIT);
if (unlikely(!new_blkg)) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err_put_css;
goto err_free_blkg;
}
}
blkg = new_blkg;
@ -403,7 +405,7 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
blkg->parent = blkg_lookup(blkcg_parent(blkcg), disk->queue);
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!blkg->parent)) {
ret = -ENODEV;
goto err_put_css;
goto err_free_blkg;
}
blkg_get(blkg->parent);
}
@ -443,8 +445,6 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
blkg_put(blkg);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
err_put_css:
css_put(&blkcg->css);
err_free_blkg:
if (new_blkg)
blkg_free(new_blkg);