slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add()

sysfs_slab_add() calls various sysfs functions that actually may
end up in userspace doing all sorts of things.

Release the slub_lock after adding the kmem_cache structure to the list.
At that point the address of the kmem_cache is not known so we are
guaranteed exlusive access to the following modifications to the
kmem_cache structure.

If the sysfs_slab_add fails then reacquire the slub_lock to
remove the kmem_cache structure from the list.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# 3.3+
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5b915e86a9b084dd3391e77f60e09736630581e8..bc7a8af24f168d950465f87f30c8ae25a143f546 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3937,13 +3937,14 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
                if (kmem_cache_open(s, n,
                                size, align, flags, ctor)) {
                        list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
+                       up_write(&slub_lock);
                        if (sysfs_slab_add(s)) {
+                               down_write(&slub_lock);
                                list_del(&s->list);
                                kfree(n);
                                kfree(s);
                                goto err;
                        }
-                       up_write(&slub_lock);
                        return s;
                }
                kfree(n);