linux-kernel - [PATCH] vmscan: fix potential arbitrary pointer passed to kfree in unregister

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:07:00 +0800
From:   tujinjiang@...edance.com
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vmscan: fix potential arbitrary pointer passed to kfree in unregister_shrinker

From: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@...edance.com>

when shrinker is registered with SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag,
register_shrinker will not initialize shrinker->nr_deferred,
but the pointer will be passed to kfree in unregister_shrinker
when the shrinker is unregistered. This leads to kernel crash
when the shrinker object is dynamically allocated.

To fix it, this patch initialize shrinker->nr_deferred at the
beginning of prealloc_shrinker.

Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@...edance.com>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f7d9a683e3a7..06ab5a398971 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -613,6 +613,7 @@ int prealloc_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
 	unsigned int size;
 	int err;

+	shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
 	if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) {
 		err = prealloc_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
 		if (err != -ENOSYS)
-- 
2.17.1