cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race

commit 5db9a4d99b
 Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
 Date:   Sat Jul 7 16:08:18 2012 -0700

     cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount race

This commit fixed a race caused by the dput() in css_dput_fn(), but
the dput() in cgroup_event_remove() can also lead to the same BUG().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

kernel/cgroup.c

@@ -3821,6 +3821,23 @@ static int cgroup_write_notify_on_release(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * When dput() is called asynchronously, if umount has been done and
+ * then deactivate_super() in cgroup_free_fn() kills the superblock,
+ * there's a small window that vfs will see the root dentry with non-zero
+ * refcnt and trigger BUG().
+ *
+ * That's why we hold a reference before dput() and drop it right after.
+ */
+static void cgroup_dput(struct cgroup *cgrp)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = cgrp->root->sb;
+
+	atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
+	dput(cgrp->dentry);
+	deactivate_super(sb);
+}
+
 /*
  * Unregister event and free resources.
  *
@@ -3841,7 +3858,7 @@ static void cgroup_event_remove(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	eventfd_ctx_put(event->eventfd);
 	kfree(event);
-	dput(cgrp->dentry);
+	cgroup_dput(cgrp);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4129,12 +4146,8 @@ static void css_dput_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css =
 		container_of(work, struct cgroup_subsys_state, dput_work);
-	struct dentry *dentry = css->cgroup->dentry;
-	struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;
 
-	atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
-	dput(dentry);
-	deactivate_super(sb);
+	cgroup_dput(css->cgroup);
 }
 
 static void css_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)