linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver/base/node: remove unnecessary kfree of node struct from unregister_one

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Message-ID: <5436173A.1050002@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:03:54 +0900
From:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
CC:	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<stable@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver/base/node: remove unnecessary kfree of node struct
 from unregister_one_node

(2014/10/09 13:10), Xishi Qiu wrote:
> On 2014/10/3 18:06, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> 
>> Commit 92d585ef067d ("numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory
>> leak in unregister_one_node()") added kfree() of node struct in
>> unregister_one_node(). But node struct is freed by node_device_release()
>> which is called in  unregister_node(). So by adding the kfree(),
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is this path?
> unregister_node()
>    device_unregister()
>      device_del()
>        bus_remove_device()
>          device_release_driver()
>            __device_release_driver()
>              devres_release_all()
>                release_nodes()
>                  dr->node.release(dev, dr->data);
>                    then which function is be called?

node_device_release is called as follows:

unregister_one_node()
-> unregister_node()
  -> device_unregister()
    -> put_device()
      -> kobject_put()
        -> kref_put()
          -> kref_sub()
            -> kobject_release()
              -> kobject_cleanup()
                -> device_release()
                  -> node_device_release()

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

> 
> Thanks,
> Xishi Qiu
> 
>> node struct is freed two times.
>>
>> While hot removing memory, the commit leads the following BUG_ON():
>>
>>    kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3346!
>>    invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
>>    [...]
>>    Call Trace:
>>     [...] unregister_one_node
>>     [...] try_offline_node
>>     [...] remove_memory
>>     [...] acpi_memory_device_remove
>>     [...] acpi_bus_trim
>>     [...] acpi_bus_trim
>>     [...] acpi_device_hotplug
>>     [...] acpi_hotplug_work_fn
>>     [...] process_one_work
>>     [...] worker_thread
>>     [...] ? rescuer_thread
>>     [...] kthread
>>     [...] ? kthread_create_on_node
>>     [...] ret_from_fork
>>     [...] ? kthread_create_on_node
>>
>> This patch removes unnecessary kfree() from unregister_one_node().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v3.16+
>> Fixes: 92d585ef067d "numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory leak in unregister_one_node()"
>> ---
>>   drivers/base/node.c | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
>> index c6d3ae0..d51c49c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
>> @@ -603,7 +603,6 @@ void unregister_one_node(int nid)
>>   		return;
>>
>>   	unregister_node(node_devices[nid]);
>> -	kfree(node_devices[nid]);
>>   	node_devices[nid] = NULL;
>>   }
>>
> 
> 
> 


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