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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Sean Fu <fxinrong@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: Fix an use after free in init_rescuer()
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 18:07:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200508150740.GA415175@mwanda> (raw)

We need to preserve error code before freeing "rescuer".

Fixes: f187b6974f6df ("workqueue: Use IS_ERR and PTR_ERR instead of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
Another option would be to just revert the original commit.

 kernel/workqueue.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index ddf0537dce140..10ed8d761e0b7 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4197,6 +4197,7 @@ static int wq_clamp_max_active(int max_active, unsigned int flags,
 static int init_rescuer(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
 	struct worker *rescuer;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (!(wq->flags & WQ_MEM_RECLAIM))
 		return 0;
@@ -4208,8 +4209,9 @@ static int init_rescuer(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 	rescuer->rescue_wq = wq;
 	rescuer->task = kthread_create(rescuer_thread, rescuer, "%s", wq->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(rescuer->task)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(rescuer->task);
 		kfree(rescuer);
-		return PTR_ERR(rescuer->task);
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	wq->rescuer = rescuer;
-- 
2.26.2


             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08 15:07 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-05-10 10:33 ` [PATCH] workqueue: Fix an use after free in init_rescuer() Lai Jiangshan
2020-05-11 14:27 ` Tejun Heo

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