As explained by Linus "I'm Proud to be an American" Torvalds:
Looking at the merging code, I actually think it's totally
buggy. If you have something like this:
- load module A: create slab cache A
- load module B: create slab cache B that can merge with A
- unload module A
- "cat /proc/slabinfo": BOOM. Oops.
exactly because the name is not handled correctly, and you'll have
module B holding open a slab cache that has a name pointer that points
to module A that no longer exists.
This patch fixes the problem by using kstrdup() to allocate dynamic memory for
->name of "struct kmem_cache" as suggested by Christoph Lameter.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Conflicts:
mm/slub.c
84c1cf6246