On 2014/10/3 18:06, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > 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(), Hi, Is this path? unregister_node() device_unregister() device_del() bus_remove_device() device_release_driver() __device_release_driver() devres_release_all() release_nodes() dr->node.release(dev, dr->data); then which function is be called? Thanks, Xishi Qiu > 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; > } > -- 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