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slab: fix wrong retval on kmem_cache_create_memcg error path
authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:05:48 +0000 (14:05 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:22:40 +0000 (16:22 -0800)
commiteb839fdb0b742ade8f1a179df40bb8a6fd8579a4
tree450625e2e787ca1f9da46d97cec3967678a6a7e4
parent9aae469ecb1ce262356e100a0247d6ffc1cf556b
slab: fix wrong retval on kmem_cache_create_memcg error path

On kmem_cache_create_memcg() error path we set 'err', but leave 's' (the
new cache ptr) undefined.  The latter can be NULL if we could not
allocate the cache, or pointing to a freed area if we failed somewhere
later while trying to initialize it.  Initially we checked 'err'
immediately before exiting the function and returned NULL if it was set
ignoring the value of 's':

    out_unlock:
        ...
        if (err) {
            /* report error */
            return NULL;
        }
        return s;

Recently this check was, in fact, broken by commit 8550af07d23d ("slab:
do not panic if we fail to create memcg cache"), which turned it to:

    out_unlock:
        ...
        if (err && !memcg) {
            /* report error */
            return NULL;
        }
        return s;

As a result, if we are failing creating a cache for a memcg, we will
skip the check and return 's' that can contain crap.  Obviously, commit
8550af07d23d intended not to return crap on error allocating a cache for
a memcg, but only to remove the error reporting in this case, so the
check should look like this:

    out_unlock:
        ...
        if (err) {
            if (!memcg)
                return NULL;
            /* report error */
            return NULL;
        }
        return s;

[rientjes@google.com: despaghettification]
[vdavydov@parallels.com: patch monkeying]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab_common.c