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authorMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>2021-02-24 12:06:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-24 13:38:32 -0800
commitcc2205a67dec5a700227a693fc113441e73e4641 (patch)
treeeda588d8fc85b9ca03c47a80765bdc77dfad4a09 /mm/hugetlb.c
parentaba677f94b7d1004a9477464d78111d9082546f9 (diff)
downloadlinux-cc2205a67dec5a700227a693fc113441e73e4641.tar.bz2
mm/hugetlb: fix potential double free in hugetlb_register_node() error path
In hugetlb_sysfs_add_hstate(), we would do kobject_put() on hstate_kobjs when failed to create sysfs group but forget to set hstate_kobjs to NULL. Then in hugetlb_register_node() error path, we may free it again via hugetlb_unregister_node(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210107123249.36964-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Fixes: a3437870160c ("hugetlb: new sysfs interface") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <smuchun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 905a7d549b00..dd56e205e7ab 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2988,8 +2988,10 @@ static int hugetlb_sysfs_add_hstate(struct hstate *h, struct kobject *parent,
return -ENOMEM;
retval = sysfs_create_group(hstate_kobjs[hi], hstate_attr_group);
- if (retval)
+ if (retval) {
kobject_put(hstate_kobjs[hi]);
+ hstate_kobjs[hi] = NULL;
+ }
return retval;
}