block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init()
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 8 Feb 2017 20:19:07 +0000 (15:19 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:07:51 +0000 (11:07 +0100)
commit 5f478e4ea5c5560b4e40eb136991a09f9389f331 upstream.

When !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK, bdi has single bdi_writeback_congested
at bdi->wb_congested.  cgwb_bdi_init() allocates it with kzalloc() and
doesn't do further initialization.  This usually works fine as the
reference count gets bumped to 1 by wb_init() and the put from
wb_exit() releases it.

However, when wb_init() fails, it puts the wb base ref automatically
freeing the wb and the explicit kfree() in cgwb_bdi_init() error path
ends up trying to free the same pointer the second time causing a
double-free.

Fix it by explicitly initilizing the refcnt to 1 and putting the base
ref from cgwb_bdi_destroy().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Fixes: a13f35e87140 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/backing-dev.c

index 9ef80bf441b37ffed8eaed66383261859ebd3623..a988d4ef39da00732848fdbc9111ecde62716a68 100644 (file)
@@ -757,15 +757,20 @@ static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
        if (!bdi->wb_congested)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       atomic_set(&bdi->wb_congested->refcnt, 1);
+
        err = wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (err) {
-               kfree(bdi->wb_congested);
+               wb_congested_put(bdi->wb_congested);
                return err;
        }
        return 0;
 }
 
-static void cgwb_bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { }
+static void cgwb_bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+{
+       wb_congested_put(bdi->wb_congested);
+}
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */