The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:15:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, slub: fix potential memoryleak in kmem_cache_open()
In error path, the random_seq of slub cache might be leaked. Fix this by using __kmem_cache_release() to release all the relevant resources.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210916123920.48704-4-linmiaohe@huawei.com Fixes: 210e7a43fa90 ("mm: SLUB freelist randomization") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl@gmail.com Cc: Andrey Ryabinin ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com Cc: Bharata B Rao bharata@linux.ibm.com Cc: Christoph Lameter cl@linux.com Cc: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Cc: Faiyaz Mohammed faiyazm@codeaurora.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: Pekka Enberg penberg@kernel.org Cc: Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index a56a6423d4e8..bf1793fb4ce5 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -4210,8 +4210,8 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_cache *s, slab_flags_t flags) if (alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(s)) return 0;
- free_kmem_cache_nodes(s); error: + __kmem_cache_release(s); return -EINVAL; }