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
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