[PATCH] mm: shrinker: Fix double-free in alloc_shrinker_info error path

From: Hongling Zeng

Date: Sat Jul 11 2026 - 00:20:12 EST


In alloc_shrinker_info(), when shrinker_unit_alloc() fails for a node,
the error handler calls free_shrinker_info() which iterates over ALL
nodes and tries to free their shrinker_info. For the failed node,
rcu_assign_pointer() was skipped, so its shrinker_info still points
to old data. This causes double-free of valid shrinker_info structures.

Fix by tracking which node failed and only freeing shrinker_info
structures that were successfully assigned via rcu_assign_pointer()
in this call. Failed/unhandled nodes are left untouched.

Fixes: 15e8156713cc ("mm: shrinker: avoid memleak in alloc_shrinker_info")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shrinker.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c
index 7082d01c8c9d..92c6cb455fc9 100644
--- a/mm/shrinker.c
+++ b/mm/shrinker.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
int nid, ret = 0;
int array_size = 0;
+ int failed_nid;

mutex_lock(&shrinker_mutex);
array_size = shrinker_unit_size(shrinker_nr_max);
@@ -98,8 +99,18 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return ret;

err:
+ failed_nid = nid;
+ for_each_node(nid) {
+ struct shrinker_info *info;
+
+ if (nid >= failed_nid)
+ break;
+ info = shrinker_info_protected(memcg, nid);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info, NULL);
+ shrinker_unit_free(info, 0);
+ kvfree(info);
+ }
mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
- free_shrinker_info(memcg);
return -ENOMEM;
}

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