From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a91714312eb16f9ecd1f7f8b3efe1380075f28d4 ]
That way percpu_ref_exit() is safe after failing percpu_ref_init().
At least one user (cgroup_create()) had a double-free that way;
there might be other similar bugs. Easier to fix in percpu_ref_init(),
rather than playing whack-a-mole in sloppy users...
Usual symptoms look like a messed refcounting in one of subsystems
that use percpu allocations (might be percpu-refcount, might be
something else). Having refcounts for two different objects share
memory is Not Nice(tm)...
Reported-by: syzbot+5b1e53987f858500ec00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/percpu-refcount.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/lib/percpu-refcount.c b/lib/percpu-refcount.c
index e59eda07305e..493093b97093 100644
--- a/lib/percpu-refcount.c
+++ b/lib/percpu-refcount.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ int percpu_ref_init(struct percpu_ref *ref, percpu_ref_func_t *release,
data = kzalloc(sizeof(*ref->data), gfp);
if (!data) {
free_percpu((void __percpu *)ref->percpu_count_ptr);
+ ref->percpu_count_ptr = 0;
return -ENOMEM;
}
--
2.35.1
