bpf: Do not limit bpf_cgroup_from_id to current's namespace

The bpf_cgroup_from_id kfunc relies on cgroup_get_from_id to obtain the
cgroup corresponding to a given cgroup ID. This helper can be called in
a lot of contexts where the current thread can be random. A recent
example was its use in sched_ext's ops.tick(), to obtain the root cgroup
pointer. Since the current task can be whatever random user space task
preempted by the timer tick, this makes the behavior of the helper
unreliable.

Refactor out __cgroup_get_from_id as the non-namespace aware version of
cgroup_get_from_id, and change bpf_cgroup_from_id to make use of it.

There is no compatibility breakage here, since changing the namespace
against which the lookup is being done to the root cgroup namespace only
permits a wider set of lookups to succeed now. The cgroup IDs across
namespaces are globally unique, and thus don't need to be retranslated.

Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915032618.1551762-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Author: kkdwvd

include/linux/cgroup.h

@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ static inline void cgroup_kthread_ready(void)
 }
 
 void cgroup_path_from_kernfs_id(u64 id, char *buf, size_t buflen);
+struct cgroup *__cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id);
 struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id);
 #else /* !CONFIG_CGROUPS */
 

kernel/bpf/helpers.c

@@ -2546,7 +2546,7 @@ __bpf_kfunc struct cgroup *bpf_cgroup_from_id(u64 cgid)
 {
 	struct cgroup *cgrp;
 
-	cgrp = cgroup_get_from_id(cgid);
+	cgrp = __cgroup_get_from_id(cgid);
 	if (IS_ERR(cgrp))
 		return NULL;
 	return cgrp;

kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c

@@ -6343,15 +6343,15 @@ void cgroup_path_from_kernfs_id(u64 id, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 }
 
 /*
- * cgroup_get_from_id : get the cgroup associated with cgroup id
+ * __cgroup_get_from_id : get the cgroup associated with cgroup id
  * @id: cgroup id
  * On success return the cgrp or ERR_PTR on failure
- * Only cgroups within current task's cgroup NS are valid.
+ * There are no cgroup NS restrictions.
  */
-struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id)
+struct cgroup *__cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id)
 {
 	struct kernfs_node *kn;
-	struct cgroup *cgrp, *root_cgrp;
+	struct cgroup *cgrp;
 
 	kn = kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_id(cgrp_dfl_root.kf_root, id);
 	if (!kn)
@@ -6373,6 +6373,22 @@ struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id)
 
 	if (!cgrp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+	return cgrp;
+}
+
+/*
+ * cgroup_get_from_id : get the cgroup associated with cgroup id
+ * @id: cgroup id
+ * On success return the cgrp or ERR_PTR on failure
+ * Only cgroups within current task's cgroup NS are valid.
+ */
+struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_id(u64 id)
+{
+	struct cgroup *cgrp, *root_cgrp;
+
+	cgrp = __cgroup_get_from_id(id);
+	if (IS_ERR(cgrp))
+		return cgrp;
 
 	root_cgrp = current_cgns_cgroup_dfl();
 	if (!cgroup_is_descendant(cgrp, root_cgrp)) {