[v4,0/3] Refactor __kmem_cache_create() and fix memory leak

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Liu Shixin Nov. 12, 2022, 11:45 a.m. UTC

I found a memory leak of kobj->name in sysfs_slab_add() which is introduced
by 80da026a8e5d ("mm/slub: fix slab double-free in case of duplicate sysfs filename").
Following the rules stated in the comment for kobject_init_and_add():

 If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
 properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

We should use kobject_put() to free kobject.

But we can't simply add kobject_put() since it will free kmem_cache too.
If we use kobject_put(), we need to skip other release functions.

In this series, We refactor the code to separate sysfs_slab_add() and
debugfs_slab_add() from __kmem_cache_create(), and then use kobject_put()
to free kobject in sysfs_slab_add(). This can fix the memory leak of
kobject->name.

v1->v2: Fix build error reported by kernel test robot <[e-mail]>.
v2->v3: Don't free kmem_cache that create early.
v3->v4: Fix error in kfree_const of kobject's name.

Liu Shixin (3):
  mm/slab_common: Move cache_name to create_cache()
  mm/slub: Refactor __kmem_cache_create()
  mm/slub: Fix memory leak of kobj->name in sysfs_slab_add()

 include/linux/slub_def.h | 11 +++++++
 mm/slab_common.c         | 44 +++++++++++++++-------------
 mm/slub.c                | 63 +++++++++++++++-------------------------
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

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