This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed to the 4.19-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: blk-mq-fix-possible-memleak-when-register-hctx-faile.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b83bbf291f3cf9f6e48990a6084315bb2d1a5c51 Author: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 17 10:29:40 2022 +0800 blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed [ Upstream commit 4b7a21c57b14fbcd0e1729150189e5933f5088e9 ] There's issue as follows when do fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888132a9f400 (size 512): comm "insmod", pid 308021, jiffies 4324277909 (age 509.733s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff ...........2.... 08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...2............ backtrace: [<00000000e8952bb4>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0xa0 [<00000000f9980e0f>] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x3f1/0x7e0 [<000000002e719efa>] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x1e6/0x230 [<000000004f1fda40>] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x27e/0x910 [<00000000287123ec>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0x67/0xf0 [<00000000a2a34657>] 0xffffffffa2ad310f [<00000000b173f718>] 0xffffffffa2af824a [<0000000095a1dabb>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000f32fdf93>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<00000000cbe8541e>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390 [<0000000069ed1bdb>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<00000000a1a29ae8>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000009cd878b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Fault injection context as follows: kobject_add blk_mq_register_hctx blk_mq_sysfs_register blk_register_queue device_add_disk null_add_dev.part.0 [null_blk] As 'blk_mq_register_hctx' may already add some objects when failed halfway, but there isn't do fallback, caller don't know which objects add failed. To solve above issue just do fallback when add objects failed halfway in 'blk_mq_register_hctx'. Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117022940.873959-1-yebin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sysfs.c b/block/blk-mq-sysfs.c index 5e4b7ed1e897..ae03e63ffbfd 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq-sysfs.c +++ b/block/blk-mq-sysfs.c @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static int blk_mq_register_hctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) { struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue; struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx; - int i, ret; + int i, j, ret; if (!hctx->nr_ctx) return 0; @@ -253,9 +253,16 @@ static int blk_mq_register_hctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) hctx_for_each_ctx(hctx, ctx, i) { ret = kobject_add(&ctx->kobj, &hctx->kobj, "cpu%u", ctx->cpu); if (ret) - break; + goto out; } + return 0; +out: + hctx_for_each_ctx(hctx, ctx, j) { + if (j < i) + kobject_del(&ctx->kobj); + } + kobject_del(&hctx->kobj); return ret; }