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After the commit in Fixes:, if a module that created a slab cache does not
release all of its allocated objects before destroying the cache (at rmmod
time), we might end up releasing the kmem_cache object without removing it
from the slab_caches list thus corrupting the list as kmem_cache_destroy()
ignores the return value from shutdown_cache(), which in turn never removes
the kmem_cache object from slabs_list in case __kmem_cache_shutdown() fails
to release all of the cache's slabs.

This is easily observable on a kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
as after that ill release the system will immediately trip on list_add,
or list_del, assertions similar to the one shown below as soon as another
kmem_cache gets created, or destroyed:

  [ 1041.213632] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff89f596fb5768, but was 52f1e5016aeee75d. (next=ffff89f595a1b268)
  [ 1041.219165] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [ 1041.221517] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!
  [ 1041.223452] invalid opcode: 0000 [Freescale#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  [ 1041.225408] CPU: 2 PID: 1852 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B   W  OE      6.5.0 Freescale#15
  [ 1041.228244] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023
  [ 1041.231212] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0xae/0xb0

Another quick way to trigger this issue, in a kernel with CONFIG_SLUB=y,
is to set slub_debug to poison the released objects and then just run
cat /proc/slabinfo after removing the module that leaks slab objects,
in which case the kernel will panic:

  [   50.954843] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xa56b6b6b6b6b6b8b: 0000 [Freescale#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  [   50.961545] CPU: 2 PID: 1495 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B   W  OE      6.5.0 Freescale#15
  [   50.966808] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023
  [   50.972663] RIP: 0010:get_slabinfo+0x42/0xf0

This patch fixes this issue by properly checking shutdown_cache()'s
return value before taking the kmem_cache_release() branch.

Fixes: 0495e33 ("mm/slab_common: Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock")
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
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aquini authored and tehcaster committed Sep 11, 2023
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions mm/slab_common.c
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Expand Up @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ void slab_kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *s)

void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
int refcnt;
int err = -EBUSY;
bool rcu_set;

if (unlikely(!s) || !kasan_check_byte(s))
Expand All @@ -490,17 +490,17 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)

rcu_set = s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU;

refcnt = --s->refcount;
if (refcnt)
s->refcount--;
if (s->refcount)
goto out_unlock;

WARN(shutdown_cache(s),
"%s %s: Slab cache still has objects when called from %pS",
err = shutdown_cache(s);
WARN(err, "%s %s: Slab cache still has objects when called from %pS",
__func__, s->name, (void *)_RET_IP_);
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
cpus_read_unlock();
if (!refcnt && !rcu_set)
if (!err && !rcu_set)
kmem_cache_release(s);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
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