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<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-05-05T22:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-05T22:43:32+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
   final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
   seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
   several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
   the kernel side. None held up.

   The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of
   zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which
   points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong.

   Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
   side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
   percpu_ref kill that drives -&gt;css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
   depopulated.

   Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
   fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
   chain and rework on the development branch.

   Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
   cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via
   subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do
   the more invasive restructuring needed for that.

 - Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
   referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
   protocol was retired.

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
   final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
   seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
   several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
   the kernel side. None held up.

   The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of
   zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which
   points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong.

   Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
   side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
   percpu_ref kill that drives -&gt;css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
   depopulated.

   Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
   fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
   chain and rework on the development branch.

   Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
   cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via
   subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do
   the more invasive restructuring needed for that.

 - Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
   referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
   protocol was retired.

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext</title>
<updated>2026-05-05T22:22:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T22:22:04+00:00</published>
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Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.

 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:

    - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept
      by global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task()
      state. Add a CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD flag to cgroup's task
      iterator (scx_task_iter is its only user) and use it.

    - Tasks past sched_ext_dead() are still returned, tripping
      WARN_ON_ONCE() in callers or making them touch torn-down state.
      Mark and skip under the per-task rq lock.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
  sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
  cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
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Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix idle CPU selection returning prev_cpu outside the task's cpus_ptr
   when the BPF caller's allowed mask was wider. Stable backport.

 - Two opposite-direction gaps in scx_task_iter's cgroup-scoped mode
   versus the global mode:

    - Tasks past exit_signals() are filtered by the cgroup walk but kept
      by global. Sub-scheduler enable abort leaked __scx_init_task()
      state. Add a CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD flag to cgroup's task
      iterator (scx_task_iter is its only user) and use it.

    - Tasks past sched_ext_dead() are still returned, tripping
      WARN_ON_ONCE() in callers or making them touch torn-down state.
      Mark and skip under the per-task rq lock.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
  sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
  sched_ext: Skip past-sched_ext_dead() tasks in scx_task_iter_next_locked()
  cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter
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<title>cgroup, sched_ext: Include exiting tasks in cgroup iter</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T19:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-28T00:16:34+00:00</published>
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a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made
css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent
with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter.

scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via
css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of
tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks
past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks.

scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting
SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking
__scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap.

Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from
scx_task_iter().

Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0f0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter")
Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou &lt;yphbchou0911@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") made
css_task_iter_advance() skip exiting tasks so cgroup.procs stays consistent
with waitpid() visibility. Unfortunately, this broke scx_task_iter.

scx_task_iter walks either scx_tasks (global) or a cgroup subtree via
css_task_iter() and the two modes are expected to cover the same set of
tasks. After the above change the cgroup-scoped mode silently skips tasks
past exit_signals() that are still on scx_tasks.

scx_sub_enable_workfn()'s abort path is one of the symptoms: an exiting
SCX_TASK_SUB_INIT task can race past the cgroup iter leaking
__scx_init_task() state. Other iterations share the same gap.

Add CSS_TASK_ITER_WITH_DEAD to opt out of the skip and use it from
scx_task_iter().

Fixes: b0e4c2f8a0f0 ("sched_ext: Implement cgroup subtree iteration for scx_task_iter")
Reported-by: Cheng-Yang Chou &lt;yphbchou0911@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T18:52:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-01T18:31:22+00:00</published>
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A chain of commits going back to v7.0 reworked rmdir to satisfy the
controller invariant that a subsystem's -&gt;css_offline() must not run while
tasks are still doing kernel-side work in the cgroup.

[1] d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
[2] a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
[3] 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
[4] 4c56a8ac6869 ("cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition")
[5] 13e786b64bd3 ("cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context")

[1] moved task cset unlink from do_exit() to finish_task_switch() so a
task's cset link drops only after the task has fully stopped scheduling.
That made tasks past exit_signals() linger on cset-&gt;tasks until their final
context switch, which led to a series of problems as what userspace expected
to see after rmdir diverged from what the kernel needs to wait for. [2]-[5]
tried to bridge that divergence: [2] filtered the exiting tasks from
cgroup.procs; [3] had rmdir(2) sleep in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for them; [4]
fixed the wait's condition; [5] made nr_dying_subsys_* visible
synchronously.

The cgroup_drain_dying() wait in [3] turned out to be a dead end. When the
rmdir caller is also the reaper of a zombie that pins a pidns teardown (e.g.
host PID 1 systemd reaping orphan pids that were re-parented to it during
the same teardown), rmdir blocks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE waiting for those
pids to free, the pids can't free because PID 1 is the reaper and it's stuck
in rmdir, and the system A-A deadlocks. No internal lock ordering breaks
this; the wait itself is the bug.

The css killing side that drove the original reorder, however, can be made
cleanly asynchronous: -&gt;css_offline() is already async, run from
css_killed_work_fn() driven by percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(). The fix is to
make that chain start only after all tasks have left the cgroup. rmdir's
user-visible side then returns as soon as cgroup.procs and friends are
empty, while -&gt;css_offline() still runs only after the cgroup is fully
drained.

Verified by the original reproducer (pidns teardown + zombie reaper, runs
under vng) which hangs vanilla and succeeds here, and by per-commit
deterministic repros for [2], [3], [4], [5] with a boot parameter that
widens the post-exit_signals() window so each state is reliably reachable.
Some stress tests on top of that.

cgroup_apply_control_disable() has the same shape of pre-existing race:
when a controller is disabled via subtree_control, kill_css() ran
synchronously while tasks past exit_signals() could still be linked to
the cgroup's csets, and -&gt;css_offline() could fire before they drained.
This patch preserves the existing synchronous behavior at that call site
(kill_css_sync() + kill_css_finish() back-to-back) and a follow-up patch
will defer kill_css_finish() there using a per-css trigger.

This seems like the right approach and I don't see problems with it. The
changes are somewhat invasive but not excessively so, so backporting to
-stable should be okay. If something does turn out to be wrong, the fallback
is to revert the entire chain ([1]-[5]) and rework in the development branch
instead.

v2: Pin cgrp across the deferred destroy work with explicit
    cgroup_get()/cgroup_put() around queue_work() and the work_fn. v1
    wasn't actually broken (ordered cgroup_offline_wq + queue_work order
    in cgroup_task_dead() saved it) but the explicit ref removes the
    dependency on those non-obvious invariants. Also note the
    pre-existing cgroup_apply_control_disable() race in the description;
    a follow-up will defer kill_css_finish() there.

Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Pitt &lt;martin@piware.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afHNg2VX2jy9bW7y@piware.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35e0670adb4abeab13da2c321582af9f@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
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A chain of commits going back to v7.0 reworked rmdir to satisfy the
controller invariant that a subsystem's -&gt;css_offline() must not run while
tasks are still doing kernel-side work in the cgroup.

[1] d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
[2] a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup")
[3] 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
[4] 4c56a8ac6869 ("cgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong condition")
[5] 13e786b64bd3 ("cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context")

[1] moved task cset unlink from do_exit() to finish_task_switch() so a
task's cset link drops only after the task has fully stopped scheduling.
That made tasks past exit_signals() linger on cset-&gt;tasks until their final
context switch, which led to a series of problems as what userspace expected
to see after rmdir diverged from what the kernel needs to wait for. [2]-[5]
tried to bridge that divergence: [2] filtered the exiting tasks from
cgroup.procs; [3] had rmdir(2) sleep in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for them; [4]
fixed the wait's condition; [5] made nr_dying_subsys_* visible
synchronously.

The cgroup_drain_dying() wait in [3] turned out to be a dead end. When the
rmdir caller is also the reaper of a zombie that pins a pidns teardown (e.g.
host PID 1 systemd reaping orphan pids that were re-parented to it during
the same teardown), rmdir blocks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE waiting for those
pids to free, the pids can't free because PID 1 is the reaper and it's stuck
in rmdir, and the system A-A deadlocks. No internal lock ordering breaks
this; the wait itself is the bug.

The css killing side that drove the original reorder, however, can be made
cleanly asynchronous: -&gt;css_offline() is already async, run from
css_killed_work_fn() driven by percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(). The fix is to
make that chain start only after all tasks have left the cgroup. rmdir's
user-visible side then returns as soon as cgroup.procs and friends are
empty, while -&gt;css_offline() still runs only after the cgroup is fully
drained.

Verified by the original reproducer (pidns teardown + zombie reaper, runs
under vng) which hangs vanilla and succeeds here, and by per-commit
deterministic repros for [2], [3], [4], [5] with a boot parameter that
widens the post-exit_signals() window so each state is reliably reachable.
Some stress tests on top of that.

cgroup_apply_control_disable() has the same shape of pre-existing race:
when a controller is disabled via subtree_control, kill_css() ran
synchronously while tasks past exit_signals() could still be linked to
the cgroup's csets, and -&gt;css_offline() could fire before they drained.
This patch preserves the existing synchronous behavior at that call site
(kill_css_sync() + kill_css_finish() back-to-back) and a follow-up patch
will defer kill_css_finish() there using a per-css trigger.

This seems like the right approach and I don't see problems with it. The
changes are somewhat invasive but not excessively so, so backporting to
-stable should be okay. If something does turn out to be wrong, the fallback
is to revert the entire chain ([1]-[5]) and rework in the development branch
instead.

v2: Pin cgrp across the deferred destroy work with explicit
    cgroup_get()/cgroup_put() around queue_work() and the work_fn. v1
    wasn't actually broken (ordered cgroup_offline_wq + queue_work order
    in cgroup_task_dead() saved it) but the explicit ref removes the
    dependency on those non-obvious invariants. Also note the
    pre-existing cgroup_apply_control_disable() race in the description;
    a follow-up will defer kill_css_finish() there.

Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Pitt &lt;martin@piware.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afHNg2VX2jy9bW7y@piware.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35e0670adb4abeab13da2c321582af9f@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T23:51:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T23:51:27+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix UAF race in psi pressure_write() against cgroup file release by
   extending cgroup_mutex coverage and ordering of-&gt;priv access after
   cgroup_kn_lock_live()

 - Fix integer overflow in rdmacg_try_charge() when usage equals INT_MAX
   by performing the increment in s64

 - Fix asymmetric DL bandwidth accounting on cpuset attach rollback by
   recording the CPU used by dl_bw_alloc() so cancel_attach() returns
   the reservation to the same root domain

 - Fix nr_dying_subsys_* race that briefly showed 0 in cgroup.stat after
   rmdir by incrementing from kill_css() instead of offline_css()

 - Typo fix in cgroup-v2 documentation

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup: fix typo 'protetion' -&gt; 'protection'
  cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context
  cgroup/cpuset: record DL BW alloc CPU for attach rollback
  cgroup/rdma: fix integer overflow in rdmacg_try_charge()
  sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix UAF race in psi pressure_write() against cgroup file release by
   extending cgroup_mutex coverage and ordering of-&gt;priv access after
   cgroup_kn_lock_live()

 - Fix integer overflow in rdmacg_try_charge() when usage equals INT_MAX
   by performing the increment in s64

 - Fix asymmetric DL bandwidth accounting on cpuset attach rollback by
   recording the CPU used by dl_bw_alloc() so cancel_attach() returns
   the reservation to the same root domain

 - Fix nr_dying_subsys_* race that briefly showed 0 in cgroup.stat after
   rmdir by incrementing from kill_css() instead of offline_css()

 - Typo fix in cgroup-v2 documentation

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup: fix typo 'protetion' -&gt; 'protection'
  cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context
  cgroup/cpuset: record DL BW alloc CPU for attach rollback
  cgroup/rdma: fix integer overflow in rdmacg_try_charge()
  sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write
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<title>cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context</title>
<updated>2026-04-23T17:37:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Malat</name>
<email>oss@malat.biz</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-23T09:48:26+00:00</published>
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Incrementing nr_dying_subsys_* in offline_css(), which is executed by
cgroup_offline_wq worker, leads to a race where user can see the value
to be 0 if he reads cgroup.stat after calling rmdir and before the worker
executes. This makes the user wrongly expect resources released by the
removed cgroup to be available for a new assignment.

Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from kill_css(), which is called from the
cgroup_rmdir() context.

Fixes: ab0312526867 ("cgroup: Show # of subsystem CSSes in cgroup.stat")
Signed-off-by: Petr Malat &lt;oss@malat.biz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Incrementing nr_dying_subsys_* in offline_css(), which is executed by
cgroup_offline_wq worker, leads to a race where user can see the value
to be 0 if he reads cgroup.stat after calling rmdir and before the worker
executes. This makes the user wrongly expect resources released by the
removed cgroup to be available for a new assignment.

Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from kill_css(), which is called from the
cgroup_rmdir() context.

Fixes: ab0312526867 ("cgroup: Show # of subsystem CSSes in cgroup.stat")
Signed-off-by: Petr Malat &lt;oss@malat.biz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-04-19T15:01:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-19T15:01:17+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song)

   Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a
   no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended
   period pointlessly consuming memory

 - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng)

   Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified
   during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series

 - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count"
   (Breno Leitao)

   Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string
   and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next
   kernel, and print it at boot time

 - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active
   sessions

 - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha
   Tatashin)

   Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and
   unregistration during module unloading

 - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar)

   Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and
   improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx
   resources

 - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and
   damon_walk()

 - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal-&gt;nid" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences

 - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential
   races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at
   the wrong time

 - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple)

   Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests

 - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan)

   Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code

 - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport)

   Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd

 - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu
   Hu)

   Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage
   when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels

 - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato)

   A couple of nice speedups for mprotect()

 - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav)

   Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo,
   kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are
   being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer
  mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
  MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO
  MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries
  mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
  selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall
  userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
  mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update
  mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
  zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store()
  docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
  mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions
  mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function
  mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
  mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment
  mm/page_io: use sio-&gt;len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
  selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available
  ...
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<pre>
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song)

   Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a
   no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended
   period pointlessly consuming memory

 - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng)

   Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified
   during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series

 - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count"
   (Breno Leitao)

   Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string
   and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next
   kernel, and print it at boot time

 - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active
   sessions

 - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha
   Tatashin)

   Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and
   unregistration during module unloading

 - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar)

   Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and
   improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx
   resources

 - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and
   damon_walk()

 - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal-&gt;nid" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences

 - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential
   races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at
   the wrong time

 - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple)

   Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests

 - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan)

   Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code

 - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport)

   Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd

 - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu
   Hu)

   Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage
   when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels

 - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato)

   A couple of nice speedups for mprotect()

 - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav)

   Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo,
   kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are
   being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer
  mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
  MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO
  MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries
  mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
  selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall
  userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
  mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update
  mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
  zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store()
  docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
  mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions
  mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function
  mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
  mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment
  mm/page_io: use sio-&gt;len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
  selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: prepare for reparenting non-hierarchical stats</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T07:10:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qi Zheng</name>
<email>zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-05T11:52:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8285917d6f383aef274fb442eb0e6f948d76abe3'/>
<id>8285917d6f383aef274fb442eb0e6f948d76abe3</id>
<content type='text'>
To resolve the dying memcg issue, we need to reparent LRU folios of child
memcg to its parent memcg.  This could cause problems for non-hierarchical
stats.

As Yosry Ahmed pointed out:

In short, if memory is charged to a dying cgroup at the time of
reparenting, when the memory gets uncharged the stats updates will occur
at the parent. This will update both hierarchical and non-hierarchical
stats of the parent, which would corrupt the parent's non-hierarchical
stats (because those counters were never incremented when the memory was
charged).

Now we have the following two types of non-hierarchical stats, and they
are only used in CONFIG_MEMCG_V1:

a. memcg-&gt;vmstats-&gt;state_local[i]
b. pn-&gt;lruvec_stats-&gt;state_local[i]

To ensure that these non-hierarchical stats work properly, we need to
reparent these non-hierarchical stats after reparenting LRU folios. To
this end, this commit makes the following preparations:

1. implement reparent_state_local() to reparent non-hierarchical stats
2. make css_killed_work_fn() to be called in rcu work, and implement
   get_non_dying_memcg_start() and get_non_dying_memcg_end() to avoid race
   between mod_memcg_state()/mod_memcg_lruvec_state()
   and reparent_state_local()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e862995c45a7101a541284b6ebee5e5c32c89066.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Co-developed-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosry@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosry@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Allen Pais &lt;apais@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz &lt;hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Imran Khan &lt;imran.f.khan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
To resolve the dying memcg issue, we need to reparent LRU folios of child
memcg to its parent memcg.  This could cause problems for non-hierarchical
stats.

As Yosry Ahmed pointed out:

In short, if memory is charged to a dying cgroup at the time of
reparenting, when the memory gets uncharged the stats updates will occur
at the parent. This will update both hierarchical and non-hierarchical
stats of the parent, which would corrupt the parent's non-hierarchical
stats (because those counters were never incremented when the memory was
charged).

Now we have the following two types of non-hierarchical stats, and they
are only used in CONFIG_MEMCG_V1:

a. memcg-&gt;vmstats-&gt;state_local[i]
b. pn-&gt;lruvec_stats-&gt;state_local[i]

To ensure that these non-hierarchical stats work properly, we need to
reparent these non-hierarchical stats after reparenting LRU folios. To
this end, this commit makes the following preparations:

1. implement reparent_state_local() to reparent non-hierarchical stats
2. make css_killed_work_fn() to be called in rcu work, and implement
   get_non_dying_memcg_start() and get_non_dying_memcg_end() to avoid race
   between mod_memcg_state()/mod_memcg_lruvec_state()
   and reparent_state_local()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e862995c45a7101a541284b6ebee5e5c32c89066.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Co-developed-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosry@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosry@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Allen Pais &lt;apais@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz &lt;hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Imran Khan &lt;imran.f.khan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T17:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Adam Davis</name>
<email>eadavis@qq.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T06:15:43+00:00</published>
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<id>a5b98009f16d8a5fb4a8ff9a193f5735515c38fa</id>
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A potential race condition exists between pressure write and cgroup file
release regarding the priv member of struct kernfs_open_file, which
triggers the uaf reported in [1].

Consider the following scenario involving execution on two separate CPUs:

   CPU0					CPU1
   ====					====
					vfs_rmdir()
					kernfs_iop_rmdir()
					cgroup_rmdir()
					cgroup_kn_lock_live()
					cgroup_destroy_locked()
					cgroup_addrm_files()
					cgroup_rm_file()
					kernfs_remove_by_name()
					kernfs_remove_by_name_ns()
 vfs_write()				__kernfs_remove()
 new_sync_write()			kernfs_drain()
 kernfs_fop_write_iter()		kernfs_drain_open_files()
 cgroup_file_write()			kernfs_release_file()
 pressure_write()			cgroup_file_release()
 ctx = of-&gt;priv;
					kfree(ctx);
 					of-&gt;priv = NULL;
					cgroup_kn_unlock()
 cgroup_kn_lock_live()
 cgroup_get(cgrp)
 cgroup_kn_unlock()
 if (ctx-&gt;psi.trigger)  // here, trigger uaf for ctx, that is of-&gt;priv

The cgroup_rmdir() is protected by the cgroup_mutex, it also safeguards
the memory deallocation of of-&gt;priv performed within cgroup_file_release().
However, the operations involving of-&gt;priv executed within pressure_write()
are not entirely covered by the protection of cgroup_mutex. Consequently,
if the code in pressure_write(), specifically the section handling the
ctx variable executes after cgroup_file_release() has completed, a uaf
vulnerability involving of-&gt;priv is triggered.

Therefore, the issue can be resolved by extending the scope of the
cgroup_mutex lock within pressure_write() to encompass all code paths
involving of-&gt;priv, thereby properly synchronizing the race condition
occurring between cgroup_file_release() and pressure_write().

And, if an live kn lock can be successfully acquired while executing
the pressure write operation, it indicates that the cgroup deletion
process has not yet reached its final stage; consequently, the priv
pointer within open_file cannot be NULL. Therefore, the operation to
retrieve the ctx value must be moved to a point *after* the live kn
lock has been successfully acquired.

In another situation, specifically after entering cgroup_kn_lock_live()
but before acquiring cgroup_mutex, there exists a different class of
race condition:

CPU0: write memory.pressure               CPU1: write cgroup.pressure=0
===========================		  =============================

kernfs_fop_write_iter()
 kernfs_get_active_of(of)
 pressure_write()
   cgroup_kn_lock_live(memory.pressure)
     cgroup_tryget(cgrp)
     kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
     ... blocks on cgroup_mutex

                                     	  cgroup_pressure_write()
                                     	  cgroup_kn_lock_live(cgroup.pressure)
                                     	  cgroup_file_show(memory.pressure, false)
                                     	    kernfs_show(false)
                                     	      kernfs_drain_open_files()
                                     	        cgroup_file_release(of)
                                     	          kfree(ctx)
                                     	            of-&gt;priv = NULL
                                     	  cgroup_kn_unlock()

   ... acquires cgroup_mutex
   ctx = of-&gt;priv;        // may now be NULL
   if (ctx-&gt;psi.trigger)  // NULL dereference

Consequently, there is a possibility that of-&gt;priv is NULL, the pressure
write needs to check for this.

Now that the scope of the cgroup_mutex has been expanded, the original
explicit cgroup_get/put operations are no longer necessary, this is
because acquiring/releasing the live kn lock inherently executes a
cgroup get/put operation.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
Call Trace:
 pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
 cgroup_file_write+0x36f/0x790 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4311
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b0/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:352

Allocated by task 9352:
 cgroup_file_open+0x90/0x3a0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4256
 kernfs_fop_open+0x9eb/0xcb0 fs/kernfs/file.c:724
 do_dentry_open+0x83d/0x13e0 fs/open.c:949

Freed by task 9353:
 cgroup_file_release+0xd6/0x100 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4283
 kernfs_release_file fs/kernfs/file.c:764 [inline]
 kernfs_drain_open_files+0x392/0x720 fs/kernfs/file.c:834
 kernfs_drain+0x470/0x600 fs/kernfs/dir.c:525

Fixes: 0e94682b73bf ("psi: introduce psi monitor")
Reported-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33e571025d88efd1312c
Tested-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
A potential race condition exists between pressure write and cgroup file
release regarding the priv member of struct kernfs_open_file, which
triggers the uaf reported in [1].

Consider the following scenario involving execution on two separate CPUs:

   CPU0					CPU1
   ====					====
					vfs_rmdir()
					kernfs_iop_rmdir()
					cgroup_rmdir()
					cgroup_kn_lock_live()
					cgroup_destroy_locked()
					cgroup_addrm_files()
					cgroup_rm_file()
					kernfs_remove_by_name()
					kernfs_remove_by_name_ns()
 vfs_write()				__kernfs_remove()
 new_sync_write()			kernfs_drain()
 kernfs_fop_write_iter()		kernfs_drain_open_files()
 cgroup_file_write()			kernfs_release_file()
 pressure_write()			cgroup_file_release()
 ctx = of-&gt;priv;
					kfree(ctx);
 					of-&gt;priv = NULL;
					cgroup_kn_unlock()
 cgroup_kn_lock_live()
 cgroup_get(cgrp)
 cgroup_kn_unlock()
 if (ctx-&gt;psi.trigger)  // here, trigger uaf for ctx, that is of-&gt;priv

The cgroup_rmdir() is protected by the cgroup_mutex, it also safeguards
the memory deallocation of of-&gt;priv performed within cgroup_file_release().
However, the operations involving of-&gt;priv executed within pressure_write()
are not entirely covered by the protection of cgroup_mutex. Consequently,
if the code in pressure_write(), specifically the section handling the
ctx variable executes after cgroup_file_release() has completed, a uaf
vulnerability involving of-&gt;priv is triggered.

Therefore, the issue can be resolved by extending the scope of the
cgroup_mutex lock within pressure_write() to encompass all code paths
involving of-&gt;priv, thereby properly synchronizing the race condition
occurring between cgroup_file_release() and pressure_write().

And, if an live kn lock can be successfully acquired while executing
the pressure write operation, it indicates that the cgroup deletion
process has not yet reached its final stage; consequently, the priv
pointer within open_file cannot be NULL. Therefore, the operation to
retrieve the ctx value must be moved to a point *after* the live kn
lock has been successfully acquired.

In another situation, specifically after entering cgroup_kn_lock_live()
but before acquiring cgroup_mutex, there exists a different class of
race condition:

CPU0: write memory.pressure               CPU1: write cgroup.pressure=0
===========================		  =============================

kernfs_fop_write_iter()
 kernfs_get_active_of(of)
 pressure_write()
   cgroup_kn_lock_live(memory.pressure)
     cgroup_tryget(cgrp)
     kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
     ... blocks on cgroup_mutex

                                     	  cgroup_pressure_write()
                                     	  cgroup_kn_lock_live(cgroup.pressure)
                                     	  cgroup_file_show(memory.pressure, false)
                                     	    kernfs_show(false)
                                     	      kernfs_drain_open_files()
                                     	        cgroup_file_release(of)
                                     	          kfree(ctx)
                                     	            of-&gt;priv = NULL
                                     	  cgroup_kn_unlock()

   ... acquires cgroup_mutex
   ctx = of-&gt;priv;        // may now be NULL
   if (ctx-&gt;psi.trigger)  // NULL dereference

Consequently, there is a possibility that of-&gt;priv is NULL, the pressure
write needs to check for this.

Now that the scope of the cgroup_mutex has been expanded, the original
explicit cgroup_get/put operations are no longer necessary, this is
because acquiring/releasing the live kn lock inherently executes a
cgroup get/put operation.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
Call Trace:
 pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
 cgroup_file_write+0x36f/0x790 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4311
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b0/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:352

Allocated by task 9352:
 cgroup_file_open+0x90/0x3a0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4256
 kernfs_fop_open+0x9eb/0xcb0 fs/kernfs/file.c:724
 do_dentry_open+0x83d/0x13e0 fs/open.c:949

Freed by task 9353:
 cgroup_file_release+0xd6/0x100 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4283
 kernfs_release_file fs/kernfs/file.c:764 [inline]
 kernfs_drain_open_files+0x392/0x720 fs/kernfs/file.c:834
 kernfs_drain+0x470/0x600 fs/kernfs/dir.c:525

Fixes: 0e94682b73bf ("psi: introduce psi monitor")
Reported-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33e571025d88efd1312c
Tested-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T17:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T17:18:49+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cgroup_file_notify() locking converted from a global lock to
   per-cgroup_file spinlock with a lockless fast-path when no
   notification is needed

 - Misc changes including exposing cgroup helpers for sched_ext and
   minor fixes

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/rdma: fix swapped arguments in pr_warn() format string
  cgroup/dmem: remove region parameter from dmemcg_parse_limit
  cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
  cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
  cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
  cgroup: Expose some cgroup helpers
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<pre>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cgroup_file_notify() locking converted from a global lock to
   per-cgroup_file spinlock with a lockless fast-path when no
   notification is needed

 - Misc changes including exposing cgroup helpers for sched_ext and
   minor fixes

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/rdma: fix swapped arguments in pr_warn() format string
  cgroup/dmem: remove region parameter from dmemcg_parse_limit
  cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
  cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
  cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
  cgroup: Expose some cgroup helpers
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