cgroup/dmem: avoid rcu warning when unregister region
A warnning was detected:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.19.0-rc7-next-
20260129+ #1101 Tainted: G O
kernel/cgroup/dmem.c:456 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by insmod/532:
#0:
ffffffff85e78b38 (dmemcg_lock){+.+.}-dmem_cgroup_unregister_region+
stack backtrace:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 532 Comm: insmod Tainted: 6.19.0-rc7-next-
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xb0/0xd0
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x151/0x1c0
dmem_cgroup_unregister_region+0x1e2/0x380
? __pfx_dmem_test_init+0x10/0x10 [dmem_uaf]
dmem_test_init+0x65/0xff0 [dmem_uaf]
do_one_initcall+0xbb/0x3a0
The macro list_for_each_rcu() must be used within an RCU read-side critical
section (between rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()). Using it outside
that context, as seen in dmem_cgroup_unregister_region(), triggers the
lockdep warning because the RCU protection is not guaranteed.
Replace list_for_each_rcu() with list_for_each_entry_safe(), which is
appropriate for traversal under spinlock protection where nodes may be
deleted.
Fixes: b168ed458dde ("kernel/cgroup: Add "dmem" memory accounting cgroup")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14+
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>