In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/slab_common: fix possible double free of kmem_cache

When doing slub_debug test, kfence's 'test_memcache_typesafe_by_rcu'
kunit test case cause a use-after-free error:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_del+0x14/0x30
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff888007679090 by task kunit_try_catch/261

  CPU: 1 PID: 261 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B            N 6.0.0-rc5-next-20220916 #17
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
   print_address_description.constprop.0+0x87/0x2a5
   print_report+0x103/0x1ed
   kasan_report+0xb7/0x140
   kobject_del+0x14/0x30
   kmem_cache_destroy+0x130/0x170
   test_exit+0x1a/0x30
   kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
   kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
   kthread+0x17b/0x1b0
   </TASK>

The cause is inside kmem_cache_destroy():

kmem_cache_destroy
    acquire lock/mutex
    shutdown_cache
        schedule_work(kmem_cache_release) (if RCU flag set)
    release lock/mutex
    kmem_cache_release (if RCU flag not set)

In some certain timing, the scheduled work could be run before
the next RCU flag checking, which can then get a wrong value
and lead to double kmem_cache_release().

Fix it by caching the RCU flag inside protected area, just like 'refcnt'

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c673c6ceac53fb2e631c9fbbd79957099a08927f [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d71608a877362becdc94191f190902fac1e64d35 [No types assigned]