After the commit in Fixes:, if a module that created a slab cache does not release all of its allocated objects before destroying the cache (at rmmod time), we might end up releasing the kmem_cache object without removing it from the slab_caches list thus corrupting the list as kmem_cache_destroy() ignores the return value from shutdown_cache(), which in turn never removes the kmem_cache object from slabs_list in case __kmem_cache_shutdown() fails to release all of the cache's slabs.
This is easily observable on a kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y as after that ill release the system will immediately trip on list_add, or list_del, assertions similar to the one shown below as soon as another kmem_cache gets created, or destroyed:
[ 1041.213632] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff89f596fb5768, but was 52f1e5016aeee75d. (next=ffff89f595a1b268) [ 1041.219165] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1041.221517] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62! [ 1041.223452] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 1041.225408] CPU: 2 PID: 1852 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W OE 6.5.0 #15 [ 1041.228244] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023 [ 1041.231212] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0xae/0xb0
Another quick way to trigger this issue, in a kernel with CONFIG_SLUB=y, is to set slub_debug to poison the released objects and then just run cat /proc/slabinfo after removing the module that leaks slab objects, in which case the kernel will panic:
[ 50.954843] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xa56b6b6b6b6b6b8b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 50.961545] CPU: 2 PID: 1495 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W OE 6.5.0 #15 [ 50.966808] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023 [ 50.972663] RIP: 0010:get_slabinfo+0x42/0xf0
This patch fixes this issue by properly checking shutdown_cache()'s return value before taking the kmem_cache_release() branch.
Fixes: 0495e337b703 ("mm/slab_common: Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock") Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini aquini@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- mm/slab_common.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index cd71f9581e67..31e581dc6e85 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ void slab_kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *s)
void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s) { - int refcnt; + int err; bool rcu_set;
if (unlikely(!s) || !kasan_check_byte(s)) @@ -490,17 +490,20 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
rcu_set = s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU;
- refcnt = --s->refcount; - if (refcnt) + s->refcount--; + if (s->refcount) { + err = -EBUSY; goto out_unlock; + }
- WARN(shutdown_cache(s), + err = shutdown_cache(s); + WARN(err, "%s %s: Slab cache still has objects when called from %pS", __func__, s->name, (void *)_RET_IP_); out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); cpus_read_unlock(); - if (!refcnt && !rcu_set) + if (!err && !rcu_set) kmem_cache_release(s); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);