SLUB duplicates the cache name in kmem_cache_create(). However if the
cache could be merged to others during early booting, the name pointer
is saved in saved_alias list, and the string needs to be kept valid
before slab_sysfs_init() is called.
This patch tries to duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list, so
that the cache name could be safely kfreed after calling
kmem_cache_create(), if that name is kmalloced.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zh...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
mm/slub.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 8c691fa..3dc8ed5 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5373,6 +5373,11 @@ static int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *s,
const char *name)
al->s = s;
al->name = name;
+ al->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!al->name) {
+ kfree(al);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
al->next = alias_list;
alias_list = al;
return 0;
@@ -5409,6 +5414,7 @@ static int __init slab_sysfs_init(void)
if (err)
printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Unable to add boot slab alias"
" %s to sysfs\n", s->name);
+ kfree(al->name);
kfree(al);
}
--
1.7.1
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