From 16c7560fcca939095d099da4316f2df66aebc3ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:57:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc() 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/slub.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 35f351f26193..0d0901ebaea2 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1818,6 +1818,11 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node, 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; -- 2.50.1