Commit b92b36ea authored by Dan Carpenter's avatar Dan Carpenter Committed by Tejun Heo
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workqueue: Fix an use after free in init_rescuer()



We need to preserve error code before freeing "rescuer".

Fixes: f187b697 ("workqueue: Use IS_ERR and PTR_ERR instead of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO.")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent f187b697
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@@ -4197,6 +4197,7 @@ static int wq_clamp_max_active(int max_active, unsigned int flags,
static int init_rescuer(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
{
	struct worker *rescuer;
	int ret;

	if (!(wq->flags & WQ_MEM_RECLAIM))
		return 0;
@@ -4208,8 +4209,9 @@ static int init_rescuer(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
	rescuer->rescue_wq = wq;
	rescuer->task = kthread_create(rescuer_thread, rescuer, "%s", wq->name);
	if (IS_ERR(rescuer->task)) {
		ret = PTR_ERR(rescuer->task);
		kfree(rescuer);
		return PTR_ERR(rescuer->task);
		return ret;
	}

	wq->rescuer = rescuer;