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From: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] debugobjects: Fix NULL pointer dereference in kmem_alloc_batch()
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 2026 13:12:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109041215.11280-2-ekffu200098@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109041215.11280-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com>

During boot, debug_objects_replace_static_objects() calls
kmem_alloc_batch() while obj_cache is still NULL.

If kmem_cache_zalloc() fails, kmem_alloc_batch() tries to free the
allocated objects with free_object_list(). But free_object_list()
always calls kmem_cache_free() with obj_cache, which causes a NULL
pointer dereference.

So use the cache passed to kmem_alloc_batch() instead.

Fixes: aebbfe0779b2 ("debugobjects: Prepare kmem_cache allocations for batching")
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
---
 lib/debugobjects.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/debugobjects.c b/lib/debugobjects.c
index 877f7675ba26..7ab1fd8e0891 100644
--- a/lib/debugobjects.c
+++ b/lib/debugobjects.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ static void pcpu_free(struct debug_obj *obj)
 	WRITE_ONCE(pool_global.stats.cur_used, pool_global.stats.cur_used - ODEBUG_BATCH_SIZE);
 }
 
-static void free_object_list(struct hlist_head *head)
+static void free_object_list(struct hlist_head *head, struct kmem_cache *cache)
 {
 	struct hlist_node *tmp;
 	struct debug_obj *obj;
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void free_object_list(struct hlist_head *head)
 
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(obj, tmp, head, node) {
 		hlist_del(&obj->node);
-		kmem_cache_free(obj_cache, obj);
+		kmem_cache_free(cache, obj);
 		cnt++;
 	}
 	debug_objects_freed += cnt;
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static bool kmem_alloc_batch(struct hlist_head *head, struct kmem_cache *cache,
 	for (int cnt = 0; cnt < ODEBUG_BATCH_SIZE; cnt++) {
 		obj = kmem_cache_zalloc(cache, gfp);
 		if (!obj) {
-			free_object_list(head);
+			free_object_list(head, cache);
 			return false;
 		}
 		debug_objects_allocated++;
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ static void free_obj_work(struct work_struct *work)
 				return;
 			}
 		}
-		free_object_list(&tofree);
+		free_object_list(&tofree, obj_cache);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-09  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-09  4:12 [PATCH 0/2] " Sang-Heon Jeon
2026-11-09  4:12 ` Sang-Heon Jeon [this message]
2026-11-09  4:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] debugobjects: Use free_object_list() in the boot error path Sang-Heon Jeon

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