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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Zhihua Che <zhihua.che@gmail.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: [15/15] slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc()
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:55:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120217005511.894980544@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120217005650.GA17119@kroah.com>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

commit 73736e0387ba0e6d2b703407b4d26168d31516a7 upstream.

Zhihua Che reported a possible memleak in slub allocator on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds.

It is possible current thread migrates right before disabling irqs in
__slab_alloc(). We must check again c->freelist, and perform a normal
allocation instead of scratching c->freelist.

Many thanks to Zhihua Che for spotting this bug, introduced in 2.6.39

V2: Its also possible an IRQ freed one (or several) object(s) and
populated c->freelist, so its not a CONFIG_PREEMPT only problem.

Reported-by: Zhihua Che <zhihua.che@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/slub.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1818,6 +1818,11 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_ca
 	if (unlikely(!node_match(c, node)))
 		goto another_slab;
 
+	/* must check again c->freelist in case of cpu migration or IRQ */
+	object = c->freelist;
+	if (object)
+		goto update_freelist;
+
 	stat(s, ALLOC_REFILL);
 
 load_freelist:
@@ -1827,6 +1832,7 @@ load_freelist:
 	if (kmem_cache_debug(s))
 		goto debug;
 
+update_freelist:
 	c->freelist = get_freepointer(s, object);
 	page->inuse = page->objects;
 	page->freelist = NULL;



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-17  0:56 [00/15] 3.0.22-stable review Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [01/15] perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [02/15] perf tools: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64 Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [03/15] drm/i915: no lvds quirk for AOpen MP45 Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [04/15] hwmon: (f75375s) Fix bit shifting in f75375_write16 Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [05/15] lib: proportion: lower PROP_MAX_SHIFT to 32 on 64-bit kernel Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [06/15] relay: prevent integer overflow in relay_open() Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [07/15] mac80211: timeout a single frame in the rx reorder buffer Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [08/15] writeback: fix dereferencing NULL bdi->dev on trace_writeback_queue Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [09/15] gpio/pca953x: Fix warning of enabled interrupts in handler Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [10/15] hwmon: (f75375s) Fix automatic pwm mode setting for F75373 & F75375 Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [11/15] crypto: sha512 - Use binary and instead of modulus Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [12/15] crypto: sha512 - Avoid stack bloat on i386 Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [13/15] ALSA: intel8x0: Fix default inaudible sound on Gateway M520 Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` [14/15] xen pvhvm: do not remap pirqs onto evtchns if !xen_have_vector_callback Greg KH
2012-02-17  0:55 ` Greg KH [this message]

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