From: Zqiang Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 11:23:19 +0000 (+0800) Subject: sched_ext: Fix the memleak for sch->helper objects X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=517a44d18537ef8ab888f71197c80116c14cee0a;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git sched_ext: Fix the memleak for sch->helper objects This commit use kthread_destroy_worker() to release sch->helper objects to fix the following kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888121ec7b00 (size 128): comm "scx_simple", pid 1197, jiffies 4295884415 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de .............N.. ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace (crc 587b3352): kmemleak_alloc+0x62/0xa0 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x28d/0x3e0 kthread_create_worker_on_node+0xd5/0x1f0 scx_enable.isra.210+0x6c2/0x25b0 bpf_scx_reg+0x12/0x20 bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x2c3/0x3b0 __sys_bpf+0x3102/0x4b00 __x64_sys_bpf+0x79/0xc0 x64_sys_call+0x15d9/0x1dd0 do_syscall_64+0xf0/0x470 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Fixes: bff3b5aec1b7 ("sched_ext: Move disable machinery into scx_sched") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.16+ Signed-off-by: Zqiang Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c index 05f5a49e9649a..073b669869cb0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/ext.c +++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c @@ -3575,7 +3575,7 @@ static void scx_sched_free_rcu_work(struct work_struct *work) int node; irq_work_sync(&sch->error_irq_work); - kthread_stop(sch->helper->task); + kthread_destroy_worker(sch->helper); free_percpu(sch->pcpu); @@ -4786,7 +4786,7 @@ static struct scx_sched *scx_alloc_and_add_sched(struct sched_ext_ops *ops) return sch; err_stop_helper: - kthread_stop(sch->helper->task); + kthread_destroy_worker(sch->helper); err_free_pcpu: free_percpu(sch->pcpu); err_free_gdsqs: