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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49647"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:23:51.561Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:55:55.097Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49647"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49647.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49647"
title: "cgroup: Use separate src/dst nodes when preloading css_sets for migration"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncgroup: Use separate src/dst nodes when preloading css_sets for migration\n\nEach cset (css_set) is pinned by its tasks. When we're moving tasks around\nacross csets for a migration, we need to hold the source and destination\ncsets to ensure that they don't go away while we're moving tasks about. This\nis done by linking cset-\u003emg_preload_node on either the\nmgctx-\u003epreloaded_src_csets or mgctx-\u003epreloaded_dst_csets list. Using the\nsame cset-\u003emg_preload_node for both the src and dst lists was deemed okay as\na cset can't be both the source and destination at the same time.\n\nUnfortunately, this overloading becomes problematic when multiple tasks are\ninvolved in a migration and some of them are identity noop migrations while\nothers are actually moving across cgroups. For example, this can happen with\nthe following sequence on cgroup1:\n\n #1\u003e mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/misc/a/b\n #2\u003e echo $$ \u003e /sys/fs/cgroup/misc/a/cgroup.procs\n #3\u003e RUN_A_COMMAND_WHICH_CREATES_MULTIPLE_THREADS &\n #4\u003e PID=$!\n #5\u003e echo $PID \u003e /sys/fs/cgroup/misc/a/b/tasks\n #6\u003e echo $PID \u003e /sys/fs/cgroup/misc/a/cgroup.procs\n\nthe process including the group leader back into a. In this final migration,\nnon-leader threads would be doing identity migration while the group leader\nis doing an actual one.\n\nAfter #3, let's say the whole process was in cset A, and that after #4, the\nleader moves to cset B. Then, during #6, the following happens:\n\n 1. cgroup_migrate_add_src() is called on B for the leader.\n\n 2. cgroup_migrate_add_src() is called on A for the other threads.\n\n 3. cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst() is called. It scans the src list.\n\n 4. It notices that B wants to migrate to A, so it tries to A to the dst\n    list but realizes that its -\u003emg_preload_node is already busy.\n\n 5. and then it notices A wants to migrate to A as it's an identity\n    migration, it culls it by list_del_init()'ing its -\u003emg_preload_node and\n    putting references accordingly.\n\n 6. The rest of migration takes place with B on the src list but nothing on\n    the dst list.\n\nThis means that A isn't held while migration is in progress. If all tasks\nleave A before the migration finishes and the incoming task pins it, the\ncset will be destroyed leading to use-after-free.\n\nThis is caused by overloading cset-\u003emg_preload_node for both src and dst\npreload lists. We wanted to exclude the cset from the src list but ended up\ninadvertently excluding it from the dst list too.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by separating out cset-\u003emg_preload_node into\n-\u003emg_src_preload_node and -\u003emg_dst_preload_node, so that the src and dst\npreloadings don't interfere with each other."
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