Commit 92d585ef067d ("numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory leak in unregister_one_node()") added kfree() of node struct in unregister_one_node(). But node struct is freed by node_device_release() which is called in unregister_node(). So by adding the kfree(), node struct is freed two times. While hot removing memory, the commit leads the following BUG_ON(): kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3346! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [...] Call Trace: [...] unregister_one_node [...] try_offline_node [...] remove_memory [...] acpi_memory_device_remove [...] acpi_bus_trim [...] acpi_bus_trim [...] acpi_device_hotplug [...] acpi_hotplug_work_fn [...] process_one_work [...] worker_thread [...] ? rescuer_thread [...] kthread [...] ? kthread_create_on_node [...] ret_from_fork [...] ? kthread_create_on_node This patch removes unnecessary kfree() from unregister_one_node(). Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.16+ Fixes: 92d585ef067d "numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory leak in unregister_one_node()" --- drivers/base/node.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c index c6d3ae0..d51c49c 100644 --- a/drivers/base/node.c +++ b/drivers/base/node.c @@ -603,7 +603,6 @@ void unregister_one_node(int nid) return; unregister_node(node_devices[nid]); - kfree(node_devices[nid]); node_devices[nid] = NULL; } -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html