linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix crash on cpu remove

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Date:	Thu,  6 Oct 2011 14:28:26 -0500
From:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	cascardo@...oscopio.com, dan.magenheimer@...cle.com,
	rdunlap@...otime.net, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	ngupta@...are.org, Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix crash on cpu remove

In the case that a cpu is taken offline before zcache_do_preload() is
ever called on the cpu, the per-cpu zcache_preloads structure will
be uninitialized.  In the CPU_DEAD case for zcache_cpu_notifier(),
kp->obj is not checked before calling kmem_cache_free() on it.
If it is NULL, a crash results.

This patch ensures that both kp->obj and kp->page are not NULL before
calling the respective free functions. In practice, just checking
one or the other should be sufficient since they are assigned together
in zcache_do_preload(), but I check both for safety.

Based on v3.1-rc8

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index 462fbc2..41d1ba1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -1357,8 +1357,14 @@ static int zcache_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
 			kp->objnodes[kp->nr - 1] = NULL;
 			kp->nr--;
 		}
-		kmem_cache_free(zcache_obj_cache, kp->obj);
-		free_page((unsigned long)kp->page);
+		if (kp->obj) {
+			kmem_cache_free(zcache_obj_cache, kp->obj);
+			kp->obj = NULL;
+		}
+		if (kp->page) {
+			free_page((unsigned long)kp->page);
+			kp->page = NULL;
+		}
 		break;
 	default:
 		break;
-- 
1.7.4.1

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