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author | Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> | 2018-03-28 16:01:16 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-03-28 13:42:05 -1000 |
commit | 914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 (patch) | |
tree | b82ce8d72d056642a749d72c866be4936cf059cf /mm/page_alloc.c | |
parent | b213b54fbf9d282dc545252313d727f3972be8e0 (diff) |
mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free
A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object->pointer,
likely due to the following race.
TASK A TASK B TASK C
kmemleak_write
(with "scan" and
NOT "scan=on")
kmemleak_scan()
create_object
kmem_cache_alloc fails
kmemleak_disable
kmemleak_do_cleanup
kmemleak_free_enabled = 0
kfree
kmemleak_free bails out
(kmemleak_free_enabled is 0)
slub frees object->pointer
update_checksum
crash - object->pointer
freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)
kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for
direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write. So add a wait for
kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it
fix the comment on stop_scan_thread.
[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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