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authorMengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com>2024-12-06 12:13:47 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-01-12 20:21:00 -0800
commitf49b42d415a32faee6bc08923821f432f64a4e90 (patch)
tree6a9e611872371390fc7c06d6af8b2a45f7a462c5
parentc7bb5cf9fc4e95dff4a3a34b1d14363a6eebdc84 (diff)
ucounts: move kfree() out of critical zone protected by ucounts_lock
Although kfree is a non-sleep function, it is possible to enter a long chain of calls probabilistically, so it looks better to move kfree from alloc_ucounts() out of the critical zone of ucounts_lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1733458427-11794-1-git-send-email-mengensun@tencent.com Signed-off-by: MengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: YueHong Wu <yuehongwu@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/ucount.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
index f950b5e59d63..86c5f1c0bad9 100644
--- a/kernel/ucount.c
+++ b/kernel/ucount.c
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
struct ucounts *alloc_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
{
struct hlist_head *hashent = ucounts_hashentry(ns, uid);
- struct ucounts *ucounts, *new;
bool wrapped;
+ struct ucounts *ucounts, *new = NULL;
spin_lock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
ucounts = find_ucounts(ns, uid, hashent);
@@ -182,17 +182,17 @@ struct ucounts *alloc_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
spin_lock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
ucounts = find_ucounts(ns, uid, hashent);
- if (ucounts) {
- kfree(new);
- } else {
+ if (!ucounts) {
hlist_add_head(&new->node, hashent);
get_user_ns(new->ns);
spin_unlock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
return new;
}
}
+
wrapped = !get_ucounts_or_wrap(ucounts);
spin_unlock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
+ kfree(new);
if (wrapped) {
put_ucounts(ucounts);
return NULL;