From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kmemleak: Protect the seq start/next/stop sequence by rcu_read_lock()
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:26:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090729152101.1878.71159.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
Objects passed to kmemleak_seq_next() have an incremented reference
count (hence not freed) but they may point via object_list.next to
other freed objects. To avoid this, the whole start/next/stop sequence
must be protected by rcu_read_lock().
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
This is a fix for bug #13761 in buzilla.kernel.org. If there are no
objections, please apply it before 2.6.31. Thanks.
mm/kmemleak.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 5aabd41..4872673 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,6 @@ static void *kmemleak_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *pos)
}
object = NULL;
out:
- rcu_read_unlock();
return object;
}
@@ -1233,13 +1232,11 @@ static void *kmemleak_seq_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *pos)
++(*pos);
- rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_continue_rcu(n, &object_list) {
next_obj = list_entry(n, struct kmemleak_object, object_list);
if (get_object(next_obj))
break;
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
put_object(prev_obj);
return next_obj;
@@ -1255,6 +1252,7 @@ static void kmemleak_seq_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
* kmemleak_seq_start may return ERR_PTR if the scan_mutex
* waiting was interrupted, so only release it if !IS_ERR.
*/
+ rcu_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
if (v)
put_object(v);
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-29 15:26 Catalin Marinas [this message]
2009-07-30 0:00 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-30 8:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-02 11:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-10 15:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-10 18:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-10 22:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-11 7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-11 8:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-12 12:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-12 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-12 15:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-12 20:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-12 22:16 ` kmemleak: Protect the seq start/next/stop sequence byrcu_read_lock() Catalin Marinas
2009-08-13 6:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-13 9:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-13 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-13 14:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-14 22:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-14 22:47 ` [PATCH] kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning Catalin Marinas
2009-08-14 22:48 ` [PATCH] kmemleak: Ignore the aperture memory hole on x86_64 Catalin Marinas
2009-08-15 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-15 22:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-16 7:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-16 10:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-16 21:48 ` Catalin Marinas
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-17 13:11 [PATCH] kmemleak: Protect the seq start/next/stop sequence by rcu_read_lock() Catalin Marinas
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