This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled blkcg: fix memory leak in blk_iolatency_init to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: blkcg-fix-memory-leak-in-blk_iolatency_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 29eeb1fbc41860c5d77240db729e19f42da13ecb Author: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 15 15:24:26 2021 +0800 blkcg: fix memory leak in blk_iolatency_init [ Upstream commit 6f5ddde41069fcd1f0993ec76c9dbbf9d021fd4d ] BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888129acdb80 (size 96): comm "syz-executor.1", pid 12661, jiffies 4294962682 (age 15.220s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 20 47 c9 85 ff ff ff ff 20 d4 8e 29 81 88 ff ff G...... ..).... 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff82264ec8>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:591 [inline] [<ffffffff82264ec8>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline] [<ffffffff82264ec8>] blk_iolatency_init+0x28/0x190 block/blk-iolatency.c:724 [<ffffffff8225b8c4>] blkcg_init_queue+0xb4/0x1c0 block/blk-cgroup.c:1185 [<ffffffff822253da>] blk_alloc_queue+0x22a/0x2e0 block/blk-core.c:566 [<ffffffff8223b175>] blk_mq_init_queue_data block/blk-mq.c:3100 [inline] [<ffffffff8223b175>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0x25/0xd0 block/blk-mq.c:3124 [<ffffffff826a9303>] loop_add+0x1c3/0x360 drivers/block/loop.c:2344 [<ffffffff826a966e>] loop_control_get_free drivers/block/loop.c:2501 [inline] [<ffffffff826a966e>] loop_control_ioctl+0x17e/0x2e0 drivers/block/loop.c:2516 [<ffffffff81597eec>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] [<ffffffff81597eec>] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] [<ffffffff81597eec>] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] [<ffffffff81597eec>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860 [<ffffffff843fa745>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff843fa745>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Once blk_throtl_init() queue init failed, blkcg_iolatency_exit() will not be invoked for cleanup. That leads a memory leak. Swap the blk_throtl_init() and blk_iolatency_init() calls can solve this. Reported-by: syzbot+01321b15cc98e6bf96d6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 19688d7f9592 (block/blk-cgroup: Swap the blk_throtl_init() and blk_iolatency_init() calls) Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210915072426.4022924-1-yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c index 31fe9be179d9..26446f97deee 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c @@ -1201,10 +1201,6 @@ int blkcg_init_queue(struct request_queue *q) if (preloaded) radix_tree_preload_end(); - ret = blk_iolatency_init(q); - if (ret) - goto err_destroy_all; - ret = blk_ioprio_init(q); if (ret) goto err_destroy_all; @@ -1213,6 +1209,12 @@ int blkcg_init_queue(struct request_queue *q) if (ret) goto err_destroy_all; + ret = blk_iolatency_init(q); + if (ret) { + blk_throtl_exit(q); + goto err_destroy_all; + } + return 0; err_destroy_all: