From 76511b0ae1da7f401fe06c8b4dd18a40c3a2b52b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Kobryn Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 17:33:50 -0700 Subject: cgroup: avoid null de-ref in css_rstat_exit() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Suggested-by: Michal Koutný Fixes: 5da3bfa029d68 ("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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c @@ -488,6 +488,9 @@ void css_rstat_exit(struct cgroup_subsys if (!css_uses_rstat(css)) return; + if (!css->rstat_cpu) + return; + css_rstat_flush(css); /* sanity check */