Commit 757fed1
Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"
This reverts commit dde3c6b.
syzbot report a double-free bug. The following case can cause this bug.
- mm/slab_common.c: create_cache(): if the __kmem_cache_create() fails,
it does:
out_free_cache:
kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
- but __kmem_cache_create() - at least for slub() - will have done
sysfs_slab_add(s)
-> sysfs_create_group() .. fails ..
-> kobject_del(&s->kobj); .. which frees s ...
We can't remove the kmem_cache_free() in create_cache(), because other
error cases of __kmem_cache_create() do not free this.
So, revert the commit dde3c6b ("mm/slub: fix a memory leak in
sysfs_slab_add()") to fix this.
Reported-by: syzbot+d0bd96b4696c1ef67991@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: dde3c6b ("mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()")
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>1 parent 76c057c commit 757fed1
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