[PATCH 1/3] kmemleak: Release the object lock before callingput_object()

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 13:18:28 EST


The put_object() function may free the object if the use_count
dropped to 0. There shouldn't be further accesses to such object unless
it is known that the use_count is non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 9610635..f06c092 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1025,11 +1025,14 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
* added to the gray_list.
*/
object->count++;
- if (color_gray(object))
+ if (color_gray(object)) {
list_add_tail(&object->gray_list, &gray_list);
- else
- put_object(object);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
+ continue;
+ }
+
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
+ put_object(object);
}
}


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