release/4.8.22/block-fix-double-free-in-the-failure-path-of-cgwb_bd.patch

From b8654ec5ab1ba3fc38e8d694985328f1c3ddda40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:19:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init()

commit 5f478e4ea5c5560b4e40eb136991a09f9389f331 upstream.

When !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK, bdi has single bdi_writeback_congested
at bdi->wb_congested.  cgwb_bdi_init() allocates it with kzalloc() and
doesn't do further initialization.  This usually works fine as the
reference count gets bumped to 1 by wb_init() and the put from
wb_exit() releases it.

However, when wb_init() fails, it puts the wb base ref automatically
freeing the wb and the explicit kfree() in cgwb_bdi_init() error path
ends up trying to free the same pointer the second time causing a
double-free.

Fix it by explicitly initilizing the refcnt to 1 and putting the base
ref from cgwb_bdi_destroy().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Fixes: a13f35e87140 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 8fde443f36d7..6ff2d7744223 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -757,15 +757,20 @@ static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 	if (!bdi->wb_congested)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	atomic_set(&bdi->wb_congested->refcnt, 1);
+
 	err = wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (err) {
-		kfree(bdi->wb_congested);
+		wb_congested_put(bdi->wb_congested);
 		return err;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void cgwb_bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { }
+static void cgwb_bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+{
+	wb_congested_put(bdi->wb_congested);
+}
 
 #endif	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
 
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