public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, surenb@google.com,
	joaodias@google.com, jhubbard@nvidia.com, willy@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: fix corruption cma_sysfs_alloc_pages_count
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:02:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <900f5707-3352-e3d1-69e8-c1f8580c0fc4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFuZua1TIEkXtqoL@google.com>

24.03.2021 22:57, Minchan Kim пишет:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:49:58PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 24.03.2021 22:43, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
>>> 24.03.2021 22:20, Minchan Kim пишет:
>>>>  static int __init cma_sysfs_init(void)
>>>>  {
>>>> -	int i = 0;
>>>> +	struct kobject *cma_kobj_root;
>>>> +	struct cma_kobject *cma_kobj;
>>>>  	struct cma *cma;
>>>> +	unsigned int i;
>>>
>>>>  	while (--i >= 0) {
>>>
>>> Do you realize that this doesn't work anymore?
>>>
>>>>  		cma = &cma_areas[i];
>>>> -		kobject_put(&cma->stat->kobj);
>>>> -	}
>>>>  
>>>> -	kfree(cma_stats);
>>>> -	kobject_put(cma_kobj);
>>>> +		kobject_put(&cma->cma_kobj->kobj);
>>>> +		kfree(cma->cma_kobj);
>>>
>>> Freeing a null pointer?
>>>
>>>> +		cma->cma_kobj = NULL;
>>>> +	}
>>>> +	kobject_put(cma_kobj_root);
>>>
>>
>> Please try to simulate the errors and check that error path is working
>> properly in the next version.
>>
>> Alternatively, we could remove the cma_kobj_release entirely, like Greg
>> suggested previously, and then don't care about cleaning up at all.
> 
> Does he suggested it to remove cma_kobj_release?(Initially, I did but
> was rejected from Greg)
> 

Alright, I haven't followed the previous threads fully and only saw the
reply where he suggested to removed it.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-24 19:20 [PATCH] mm: cma: fix corruption cma_sysfs_alloc_pages_count Minchan Kim
2021-03-24 19:43 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-03-24 19:49   ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-24 19:49   ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-03-24 19:57     ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-24 20:02       ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]
2021-03-24 20:55         ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-24 19:45 ` John Hubbard
2021-03-24 19:53   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-24 19:55     ` Minchan Kim

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=900f5707-3352-e3d1-69e8-c1f8580c0fc4@gmail.com \
    --to=digetx@gmail.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=jhubbard@nvidia.com \
    --cc=joaodias@google.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=minchan@kernel.org \
    --cc=surenb@google.com \
    --cc=willy@infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox