4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f6ba488073fe8159851fe398cc3c5ee383bb4c7a upstream.
To avoid a possible deadlock, sysfs_slab_remove() schedules an
asynchronous work to delete sysfs entries corresponding to the kmem
cache. To ensure the cache isn't freed before the work function is
called, it takes a reference to the cache kobject. The reference is
supposed to be released by the work function.
However, the work function (sysfs_slab_remove_workfn()) does nothing in
case the cache sysfs entry has already been deleted, leaking the kobject
and the corresponding cache.
This may happen on a per memcg cache destruction, because sysfs entries
of a per memcg cache are deleted on memcg offline if the cache is empty
(see __kmemcg_cache_deactivate()).
The kmemleak report looks like this:
unreferenced object 0xffff9f798a79f540 (size 32):
comm "kworker/1:4", pid 15416, jiffies 4307432429 (age 28687.554s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6b 6d 61 6c 6c 6f 63 2d 31 36 28 31 35 39 39 3a kmalloc-16(1599:
6e 65 77 72 6f 6f 74 29 00 23 6b c0 ff ff ff ff newroot).#k.....
backtrace:
kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
__kmalloc_track_caller+0x148/0x2c0
kvasprintf+0x66/0xd0
kasprintf+0x49/0x70
memcg_create_kmem_cache+0xe6/0x160
memcg_kmem_cache_create_func+0x20/0x110
process_one_work+0x205/0x5d0
worker_thread+0x4e/0x3a0
kthread+0x109/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40
unreferenced object 0xffff9f79b6136840 (size 416):
comm "kworker/1:4", pid 15416, jiffies 4307432429 (age 28687.573s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
40 fb 80 c2 3e 33 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 @...>3.....@....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
kmem_cache_alloc+0x128/0x280
create_cache+0x3b/0x1e0
memcg_create_kmem_cache+0x118/0x160
memcg_kmem_cache_create_func+0x20/0x110
process_one_work+0x205/0x5d0
worker_thread+0x4e/0x3a0
kthread+0x109/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40
Fix the leak by adding the missing call to kobject_put() to
sysfs_slab_remove_workfn().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170812181134.25027-1-vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 3b7b314053d02 ("slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5637,13 +5637,14 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove_workfn(str
* A cache is never shut down before deactivation is
* complete, so no need to worry about synchronization.
*/
- return;
+ goto out;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
kset_unregister(s->memcg_kset);
#endif
kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&s->kobj);
+out:
kobject_put(&s->kobj);
}