(2014/10/09 13:10), Xishi Qiu wrote: > 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? node_device_release is called as follows: unregister_one_node() -> unregister_node() -> device_unregister() -> put_device() -> kobject_put() -> kref_put() -> kref_sub() -> kobject_release() -> kobject_cleanup() -> device_release() -> node_device_release() Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu > > 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