There is a memory leak of kobj->name in sysfs_slab_add(): unreferenced object 0xffff88817e446440 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 4085, jiffies 4296564501 (age 126.272s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 75 62 69 66 73 5f 69 6e 6f 64 65 5f 73 6c 61 62 ubifs_inode_slab 00 65 44 7e 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .eD~............ backtrace: [<000000005b30fbbd>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150 [<000000002f70da0c>] kstrdup_const+0x4b/0x80 [<00000000c6712c61>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2f/0xb0 [<00000000b151218e>] kobject_init_and_add+0xb0/0x120 [<00000000e56a4cf5>] sysfs_slab_add+0x17d/0x220 [<000000009326fd57>] __kmem_cache_create+0x406/0x590 [<00000000dde33cff>] kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x1fc/0x300 [<00000000fe90cedb>] kmem_cache_create+0x12/0x20 [<000000007a6531c8>] 0xffffffffa02d802d [<000000000e3b13c7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000995ecdcf>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<000000008821941f>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330 [<00000000ef51efa4>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<000000009339fbce>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000006b7f2033>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Following the rules stated in the comment for kobject_init_and_add(): If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. kobject_put() is more appropriate for error handling after kobject_init(). And we can use this function to solve this problem. Fixes: 80da026a8e5d ("mm/slub: fix slab double-free in case of duplicate sysfs filename") Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab_common.c | 4 +--- mm/slub.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 55e2cf064dfe..9337724b5c76 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -238,10 +238,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache *create_cache(const char *name, /* Mutex is not taken during early boot */ if (slab_state >= FULL) { err = sysfs_slab_add(s); - if (err) { - slab_kmem_cache_release(s); + if (err) return ERR_PTR(err); - } debugfs_slab_add(s); } #endif diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index a1ad759753ce..f8883bc642b8 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5911,14 +5911,16 @@ int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) * for the symlinks. */ name = create_unique_id(s); - if (IS_ERR(name)) + if (IS_ERR(name)) { + slab_kmem_cache_release(s); return PTR_ERR(name); + } } s->kobj.kset = kset; err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype, NULL, "%s", name); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_put_kobj; err = sysfs_create_group(&s->kobj, &slab_attr_group); if (err) @@ -5934,6 +5936,8 @@ int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) return err; out_del_kobj: kobject_del(&s->kobj); +out_put_kobj: + kobject_put(&s->kobj); goto out; } -- 2.25.1