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Commit 757fed1d authored by Wang Hai's avatar Wang Hai Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"



This reverts commit dde3c6b7.

syzbot report a double-free bug. The following case can cause this bug.

 - mm/slab_common.c: create_cache(): if the __kmem_cache_create() fails,
   it does:

	out_free_cache:
		kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);

 - but __kmem_cache_create() - at least for slub() - will have done

	sysfs_slab_add(s)
		-> sysfs_create_group() .. fails ..
		-> kobject_del(&s->kobj); .. which frees s ...

We can't remove the kmem_cache_free() in create_cache(), because other
error cases of __kmem_cache_create() do not free this.

So, revert the commit dde3c6b7 ("mm/slub: fix a memory leak in
sysfs_slab_add()") to fix this.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+d0bd96b4696c1ef67991@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: dde3c6b7 ("mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()")
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 76c057c8
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