weighted_interleave_auto_store() fetches old_wi_state inside the if
(!input) block only. This causes two memory leaks:
1. When a user writes "false" and the current mode is already manual,
the function returns early without freeing the freshly allocated
new_wi_state.
2. When a user writes "true", old_wi_state stays NULL because the
fetch is skipped entirely. The old state is then overwritten by
rcu_assign_pointer() but never freed, since the cleanup path is
gated on old_wi_state being non-NULL. A user can trigger this
repeatedly by writing "1" in a loop.
Fix both leaks by moving the old_wi_state fetch before the input check,
making it unconditional. This also allows a unified early return for both
"true" and "false" when the requested mode matches the current mode.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260401005702.7096-1-liu.yun@linux.dev
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260331100740.84906-1-liu.yun@linux.dev
Fixes: e341f9c3c841 ("mm/mempolicy: Weighted Interleave Auto-tuning")
Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.16+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
new_wi_state->iw_table[i] = 1;
mutex_lock(&wi_state_lock);
- if (!input) {
- old_wi_state = rcu_dereference_protected(wi_state,
- lockdep_is_held(&wi_state_lock));
- if (!old_wi_state)
- goto update_wi_state;
- if (input == old_wi_state->mode_auto) {
- mutex_unlock(&wi_state_lock);
- return count;
- }
+ old_wi_state = rcu_dereference_protected(wi_state,
+ lockdep_is_held(&wi_state_lock));
- memcpy(new_wi_state->iw_table, old_wi_state->iw_table,
- nr_node_ids * sizeof(u8));
+ if (old_wi_state && input == old_wi_state->mode_auto) {
+ mutex_unlock(&wi_state_lock);
+ kfree(new_wi_state);
+ return count;
+ }
+
+ if (!input) {
+ if (old_wi_state)
+ memcpy(new_wi_state->iw_table, old_wi_state->iw_table,
+ nr_node_ids * sizeof(u8));
goto update_wi_state;
}