[patch] slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Jan 27 2009 - 22:00:12 EST


The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates
NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs.

When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may
have an address at the upper bound of this array. If this happens, it
does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out
of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1996,7 +1996,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache_cpu *alloc_kmem_cache_cpu(struct kmem_cache *s,
static void free_kmem_cache_cpu(struct kmem_cache_cpu *c, int cpu)
{
if (c < per_cpu(kmem_cache_cpu, cpu) ||
- c > per_cpu(kmem_cache_cpu, cpu) + NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU) {
+ c >= per_cpu(kmem_cache_cpu, cpu) + NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU) {
kfree(c);
return;
}
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