[PATCH] mm: shrinkers: fix double kfree on shrinker name

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Wed Jul 20 2022 - 10:48:12 EST


syzbot is reporting double kfree() at free_prealloced_shrinker() [1], for
destroy_unused_super() calls free_prealloced_shrinker() even if
prealloc_shrinker() returned an error. Explicitly clear shrinker name
when prealloc_shrinker() called kfree().

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8b481578352d4637f510 [1]
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+8b481578352d4637f510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e33c267ab70de424 ("mm: shrinkers: provide shrinkers with names")
---
mm/vmscan.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 64ffdcd019a9..3302d9ed332e 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -707,8 +707,10 @@ int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker, const char *fmt, ...)
return -ENOMEM;

err = __register_shrinker(shrinker);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
kfree_const(shrinker->name);
+ shrinker->name = NULL;
+ }
return err;
}
#else
--
2.18.4