Revision d38a2b7a9c939e6d7329ab92b96559ccebf7b135 authored by Muchun Song on 24 July 2020, 04:15:27 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 24 July 2020, 19:42:41 UTC
If the kmem_cache refcount is greater than one, we should not mark the
root kmem_cache as dying.  If we mark the root kmem_cache dying
incorrectly, the non-root kmem_cache can never be destroyed.  It
resulted in memory leak when memcg was destroyed.  We can use the
following steps to reproduce.

  1) Use kmem_cache_create() to create a new kmem_cache named A.
  2) Coincidentally, the kmem_cache A is an alias for kmem_cache B,
     so the refcount of B is just increased.
  3) Use kmem_cache_destroy() to destroy the kmem_cache A, just
     decrease the B's refcount but mark the B as dying.
  4) Create a new memory cgroup and alloc memory from the kmem_cache
     B. It leads to create a non-root kmem_cache for allocating memory.
  5) When destroy the memory cgroup created in the step 4), the
     non-root kmem_cache can never be destroyed.

If we repeat steps 4) and 5), this will cause a lot of memory leak.  So
only when refcount reach zero, we mark the root kmem_cache as dying.

Fixes: 92ee383f6daa ("mm: fix race between kmem_cache destroy, create and deactivate")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716165103.83462-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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last.c
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
 *  Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
 *  Copyright (c) by Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
 */

#include <linux/init.h>
#include <sound/core.h>

static int __init alsa_sound_last_init(void)
{
	struct snd_card *card;
	int idx, ok = 0;
	
	printk(KERN_INFO "ALSA device list:\n");
	for (idx = 0; idx < SNDRV_CARDS; idx++) {
		card = snd_card_ref(idx);
		if (card) {
			printk(KERN_INFO "  #%i: %s\n", idx, card->longname);
			snd_card_unref(card);
			ok++;
		}
	}
	if (ok == 0)
		printk(KERN_INFO "  No soundcards found.\n");
	return 0;
}

late_initcall_sync(alsa_sound_last_init);
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