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When kobject_init_and_add() fails during cache creation, kobj->name can be leaked because SLUB does not call kobject_put(), which should be invoked per the kobject API documentation. This has a bit of historical context, though; SLUB does not call kobject_put() to avoid double-free for struct kmem_cache because 1) simply calling it would free all resources related to the cache, and 2) struct kmem_cache descriptor is always freed by cache_cache()'s error handling path, causing struct kmem_cache to be freed twice. This issue can be reproduced by creating new slab caches while applying failslab for kernfs_node_cache. This makes kobject_add_varg() succeed, but causes kobject_add_internal() to fail in kobject_init_and_add() during cache creation. Historically, this issue has attracted developers' attention several times. Each time a fix addressed either the leak or the double-free, it caused the other issue. Let's summarize a bit of history here: The leak has existed since the early days of SLUB. Commit |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.