From: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:48:26 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context
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cgroup: Increment nr_dying_subsys_* from rmdir context

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 <oss@malat.biz>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 3243c2087ee3..c928dea9dea6 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -5724,16 +5724,6 @@ static void offline_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(css->cgroup->subsys[ss->id], NULL);
 
 	wake_up_all(&css->cgroup->offline_waitq);
-
-	css->cgroup->nr_dying_subsys[ss->id]++;
-	/*
-	 * Parent css and cgroup cannot be freed until after the freeing
-	 * of child css, see css_free_rwork_fn().
-	 */
-	while ((css = css->parent)) {
-		css->nr_descendants--;
-		css->cgroup->nr_dying_subsys[ss->id]++;
-	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -6045,6 +6035,8 @@ static void css_killed_ref_fn(struct percpu_ref *ref)
  */
 static void kill_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 {
+	struct cgroup_subsys *ss = css->ss;
+
 	lockdep_assert_held(&cgroup_mutex);
 
 	if (css->flags & CSS_DYING)
@@ -6081,6 +6073,16 @@ static void kill_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	 * css is confirmed to be seen as killed on all CPUs.
 	 */
 	percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(&css->refcnt, css_killed_ref_fn);
+
+	css->cgroup->nr_dying_subsys[ss->id]++;
+	/*
+	 * Parent css and cgroup cannot be freed until after the freeing
+	 * of child css, see css_free_rwork_fn().
+	 */
+	while ((css = css->parent)) {
+		css->nr_descendants--;
+		css->cgroup->nr_dying_subsys[ss->id]++;
+	}
 }
 
 /**