This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init()
to the 4.4-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:
block-fix-double-free-in-the-failure-path-of-cgwb_bdi_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5f478e4ea5c5560b4e40eb136991a09f9389f331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:19:07 -0500
Subject: block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init()
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5f478e4ea5c5560b4e40eb136991a09f9389f331 upstream.
When !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK, bdi has single bdi_writeback_congested
at bdi->wb_congested. cgwb_bdi_init() allocates it with kzalloc() and
doesn't do further initialization. This usually works fine as the
reference count gets bumped to 1 by wb_init() and the put from
wb_exit() releases it.
However, when wb_init() fails, it puts the wb base ref automatically
freeing the wb and the explicit kfree() in cgwb_bdi_init() error path
ends up trying to free the same pointer the second time causing a
double-free.
Fix it by explicitly initilizing the refcnt to 1 and putting the base
ref from cgwb_bdi_destroy().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a13f35e87140 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -757,15 +757,20 @@ static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_
if (!bdi->wb_congested)
return -ENOMEM;
+ atomic_set(&bdi->wb_congested->refcnt, 1);
+
err = wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (err) {
- kfree(bdi->wb_congested);
+ wb_congested_put(bdi->wb_congested);
return err;
}
return 0;
}
-static void cgwb_bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { }
+static void cgwb_bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+{
+ wb_congested_put(bdi->wb_congested);
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/block-fix-double-free-in-the-failure-path-of-cgwb_bdi_init.patch