[ 092/108] slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add()
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-03-30 22:41:44
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3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christoph Lameter <redacted> commit 66c4c35c6bc5a1a452b024cf0364635b28fd94e4 upstream. sysfs_slab_add() calls various sysfs functions that actually may end up in userspace doing all sorts of things. Release the slub_lock after adding the kmem_cache structure to the list. At that point the address of the kmem_cache is not known so we are guaranteed exlusive access to the following modifications to the kmem_cache structure. If the sysfs_slab_add fails then reacquire the slub_lock to remove the kmem_cache structure from the list. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <redacted> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <redacted> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- mm/slub.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c@@ -3439,13 +3439,14 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(con if (kmem_cache_open(s, n, size, align, flags, ctor)) { list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches); + up_write(&slub_lock); if (sysfs_slab_add(s)) { + down_write(&slub_lock); list_del(&s->list); kfree(n); kfree(s); goto err; } - up_write(&slub_lock); return s; } kfree(n);