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cgroup: verify that source is a string

      The following sequence can be used to trigger a UAF:

    int fscontext_fd = fsopen("cgroup");
    int fd_null = open("/dev/null, O_RDONLY);
    int fsconfig(fscontext_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "source", fd_null);
    close_range(3, ~0U, 0);

The cgroup v1 specific fs parser expects a string for the "source"
parameter.  However, it is perfectly legitimate to e.g.  specify a file
descriptor for the "source" parameter.  The fs parser doesn't know what
a filesystem allows there.  So it's a bug to assume that "source" is
always of type fs_value_is_string when it can reasonably also be
fs_value_is_file.

This assumption in the cgroup code causes a UAF because struct
fs_parameter uses a union for the actual value.  Access to that union is
guarded by the param->type member.  Since the cgroup paramter parser
didn't check param->type but unconditionally moved param->string into
fc->source a close on the fscontext_fd would trigger a UAF during
put_fs_context() w
    
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