Commit 7ed9f7e5 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Pekka Enberg

fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b

Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than
rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU
callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
parent 28d0325c
......@@ -2547,7 +2547,7 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
}
if (unlikely(cachep->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU))
synchronize_rcu();
rcu_barrier();
__kmem_cache_destroy(cachep);
mutex_unlock(&cache_chain_mutex);
......
......@@ -595,6 +595,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_create);
void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *c)
{
kmemleak_free(c);
if (c->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)
rcu_barrier();
slob_free(c, sizeof(struct kmem_cache));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
......
......@@ -2595,6 +2595,8 @@ static inline int kmem_cache_close(struct kmem_cache *s)
*/
void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
if (s->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)
rcu_barrier();
down_write(&slub_lock);
s->refcount--;
if (!s->refcount) {
......
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