linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?

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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:14:10 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	penberg@...nel.org, bonbons@...ux-vserver.org
Cc:	vapier.adi@...il.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
	adobriyan@...il.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?

I don't know whether below is related with this bug. But...

static struct dentry *proc_pident_instantiate(struct inode *dir,
        struct dentry *dentry, struct task_struct *task, const void *ptr)
{
        const struct pid_entry *p = ptr;
        struct inode *inode;
        struct proc_inode *ei;
        struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);

        inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dir->i_sb, task);
        if (!inode)
                goto out;

        ei = PROC_I(inode);
        inode->i_mode = p->mode;
        if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
                inode->i_nlink = 2;     /* Use getattr to fix if necessary */
        if (p->iop)
                inode->i_op = p->iop;
        if (p->fop)
                inode->i_fop = p->fop;
        ei->op = p->op;
        d_set_d_op(dentry, &pid_dentry_operations);
        d_add(dentry, inode);
        /* Close the race of the process dying before we return the dentry */
        if (pid_revalidate(dentry, NULL))
                error = NULL;
out:
        return error;
}

proc_pid_make_inode() gets a ref on task, but return value of pid_revalidate()
(one of 0, 1, -ECHILD) may not be what above 'if (pid_revalidate(dentry, NULL))'
part expects. (-ECHILD is a new return value introduced by LOOKUP_RCU.)

static int pid_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
{
        struct inode *inode;
        struct task_struct *task;
        const struct cred *cred;

        if (nd && nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
                return -ECHILD;

        inode = dentry->d_inode;
        task = get_proc_task(inode);

        if (task) {
                if ((inode->i_mode == (S_IFDIR|S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO)) ||
                    task_dumpable(task)) {
                        rcu_read_lock();
                        cred = __task_cred(task);
                        inode->i_uid = cred->euid;
                        inode->i_gid = cred->egid;
                        rcu_read_unlock();
                } else {
                        inode->i_uid = 0;
                        inode->i_gid = 0;
                }
                inode->i_mode &= ~(S_ISUID | S_ISGID);
                security_task_to_inode(task, inode);
                put_task_struct(task);
                return 1;
        }
        d_drop(dentry);
        return 0;
}
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