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Vladimir Davydov
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To avoid a possible deadlock, sysfs_slab_remove() schedules an
asynchronous work to delete sysfs entries corresponding to the kmem
cache. To ensure the cache isn't freed before the work function is
called, it takes a reference to the cache kobject. The reference is
supposed to be released by the work function.
However, the work function (sysfs_slab_remove_workfn()) does nothing in
case the cache sysfs entry has already been deleted, leaking the kobject
and the corresponding cache.
This may happen on a per memcg cache destruction, because sysfs entries
of a per memcg cache are deleted on memcg offline if the cache is empty
(see __kmemcg_cache_deactivate()).
The kmemleak report looks like this:
unreferenced object 0xffff9f798a79f540 (size 32):
comm "kworker/1:4", pid 15416, jiffies 4307432429 (age 28687.554s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6b 6d 61 6c 6c 6f 63 2d 31 36 28 31 35 39 39 3a kmalloc-16(1599:
6e 65 77 72 6f 6f 74 29 00 23 6b c0 ff ff ff ff newroot).#k.....
backtrace:
kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
__kmalloc_track_caller+0x148/0x2c0
kvasprintf+0x66/0xd0
kasprintf+0x49/0x70
memcg_create_kmem_cache+0xe6/0x160
memcg_kmem_cache_create_func+0x20/0x110
process_one_work+0x205/0x5d0
worker_thread+0x4e/0x3a0
kthread+0x109/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40
unreferenced object 0xffff9f79b6136840 (size 416):
comm "kworker/1:4", pid 15416, jiffies 4307432429 (age 28687.573s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
40 fb 80 c2 3e 33 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 @...>3.....@....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
kmem_cache_alloc+0x128/0x280
create_cache+0x3b/0x1e0
memcg_create_kmem_cache+0x118/0x160
memcg_kmem_cache_create_func+0x20/0x110
process_one_work+0x205/0x5d0
worker_thread+0x4e/0x3a0
kthread+0x109/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40
Fix the leak by adding the missing call to kobject_put() to
sysfs_slab_remove_workfn().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 3b7b314053 ("slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [4.12.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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