The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb: fix sysfs group leak in hugetlb_unregister_node() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-fix-sysfs-group-leak-in-hugetlb_unregister_node.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-hugetlb-fix-sysfs-group-leak-in-hugetlb_unregister_node.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb: fix sysfs group leak in hugetlb_unregister_node() Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:05:52 +0800 The sysfs group per_node_hstate_attr_group and hstate_demote_attr_group when h->demote_order != 0 are created in hugetlb_register_node(). But these sysfs groups are not removed when unregister the node, thus sysfs group is leaked. Using sysfs_remove_group() to fix this issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220816130553.31406-6-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-fix-sysfs-group-leak-in-hugetlb_unregister_node +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3850,12 +3850,18 @@ static int hugetlb_sysfs_add_hstate(stru } if (h->demote_order) { - if (sysfs_create_group(hstate_kobjs[hi], - &hstate_demote_attr_group)) + retval = sysfs_create_group(hstate_kobjs[hi], + &hstate_demote_attr_group); + if (retval) { pr_warn("HugeTLB unable to create demote interfaces for %s\n", h->name); + sysfs_remove_group(hstate_kobjs[hi], hstate_attr_group); + kobject_put(hstate_kobjs[hi]); + hstate_kobjs[hi] = NULL; + return retval; + } } - return retval; + return 0; } static void __init hugetlb_sysfs_init(void) @@ -3941,10 +3947,15 @@ static void hugetlb_unregister_node(stru for_each_hstate(h) { int idx = hstate_index(h); - if (nhs->hstate_kobjs[idx]) { - kobject_put(nhs->hstate_kobjs[idx]); - nhs->hstate_kobjs[idx] = NULL; - } + struct kobject *hstate_kobj = nhs->hstate_kobjs[idx]; + + if (!hstate_kobj) + continue; + if (h->demote_order) + sysfs_remove_group(hstate_kobj, &hstate_demote_attr_group); + sysfs_remove_group(hstate_kobj, &per_node_hstate_attr_group); + kobject_put(hstate_kobj); + nhs->hstate_kobjs[idx] = NULL; } kobject_put(nhs->hugepages_kobj); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb-avoid-corrupting-page-mapping-in-hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte.patch mm-page_alloc-minor-clean-up-for-memmap_init_compound.patch hugetlb_cgroup-remove-unneeded-nr_pages-0-check.patch hugetlb_cgroup-hugetlbfs-use-helper-macro-sz_1kmg.patch hugetlb_cgroup-remove-unneeded-return-value.patch hugetlb_cgroup-use-helper-macro-numa_no_node.patch hugetlb_cgroup-use-helper-for_each_hstate-and-hstate_index.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-incorrect-update-of-max_huge_pages.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-warn_onkobj-in-sysfs_create_group.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-missing-call-to-restore_reserve_on_error.patch mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-add-missing-smp_wmb-before-set_pte_at.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-sysfs-group-leak-in-hugetlb_unregister_node.patch mm-hugetlb-make-detecting-shared-pte-more-reliable.patch