SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting

If CONFIG_SYSFS is set then free the kmem_cache structure when
sysfs tells us its okay.

Otherwise there is the danger (as pointed out by
Al Viro) that sysfs thinks the kobject still exists after
kmem_cache_destroy() removed it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 93f5c28..65bf21d 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -247,7 +247,10 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *);
 static inline int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) { return 0; }
 static inline int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *p)
 							{ return 0; }
-static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s) {}
+static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+	kfree(s);
+}
 #endif
 
 /********************************************************************
@@ -2322,7 +2325,6 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
 		if (kmem_cache_close(s))
 			WARN_ON(1);
 		sysfs_slab_remove(s);
-		kfree(s);
 	} else
 		up_write(&slub_lock);
 }
@@ -3937,6 +3939,13 @@ static ssize_t slab_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 	return err;
 }
 
+static void kmem_cache_release(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	struct kmem_cache *s = to_slab(kobj);
+
+	kfree(s);
+}
+
 static struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = {
 	.show = slab_attr_show,
 	.store = slab_attr_store,
@@ -3944,6 +3953,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = {
 
 static struct kobj_type slab_ktype = {
 	.sysfs_ops = &slab_sysfs_ops,
+	.release = kmem_cache_release
 };
 
 static int uevent_filter(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj)
@@ -4045,6 +4055,7 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
 	kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
 	kobject_del(&s->kobj);
+	kobject_put(&s->kobj);
 }
 
 /*