linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 048/110] mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling

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Message-ID: <lsq.1439201551.279193146@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:12:31 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Vignesh Radhakrishnan" <vigneshr@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 048/110] mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning
 during kmemleak disabling

3.2.71-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

commit c5f3b1a51a591c18c8b33983908e7fdda6ae417e upstream.

The kmemleak scanning thread can run for minutes.  Callbacks like
kmemleak_free() are allowed during this time, the race being taken care
of by the object->lock spinlock.  Such lock also prevents a memory block
from being freed or unmapped while it is being scanned by blocking the
kmemleak_free() -> ...  -> __delete_object() function until the lock is
released in scan_object().

When a kmemleak error occurs (e.g.  it fails to allocate its metadata),
kmemleak_enabled is set and __delete_object() is no longer called on
freed objects.  If kmemleak_scan is running at the same time,
kmemleak_free() no longer waits for the object scanning to complete,
allowing the corresponding memory block to be freed or unmapped (in the
case of vfree()).  This leads to kmemleak_scan potentially triggering a
page fault.

This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the
overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the
object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed.  The
kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is
only called during boot before the scanning thread started.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan <vigneshr@...eaurora.org>
Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan <vigneshr@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop changes to kmemleak_free_percpu()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache *scan_area_cach
 
 /* set if tracing memory operations is enabled */
 static atomic_t kmemleak_enabled = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+/* same as above but only for the kmemleak_free() callback */
+static int kmemleak_free_enabled;
 /* set in the late_initcall if there were no errors */
 static atomic_t kmemleak_initialized = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 /* enables or disables early logging of the memory operations */
@@ -885,7 +887,7 @@ void __ref kmemleak_free(const void *ptr
 {
 	pr_debug("%s(0x%p)\n", __func__, ptr);
 
-	if (atomic_read(&kmemleak_enabled) && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr))
+	if (kmemleak_free_enabled && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr))
 		delete_object_full((unsigned long)ptr);
 	else if (atomic_read(&kmemleak_early_log))
 		log_early(KMEMLEAK_FREE, ptr, 0, 0);
@@ -1614,6 +1616,13 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct w
 	mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
 	stop_scan_thread();
 
+	/*
+	 * Once the scan thread has stopped, it is safe to no longer track
+	 * object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and the memory
+	 * accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop() function.
+	 */
+	kmemleak_free_enabled = 0;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list)
 		delete_object_full(object->pointer);
@@ -1640,6 +1649,8 @@ static void kmemleak_disable(void)
 	/* check whether it is too early for a kernel thread */
 	if (atomic_read(&kmemleak_initialized))
 		schedule_work(&cleanup_work);
+	else
+		kmemleak_free_enabled = 0;
 
 	pr_info("Kernel memory leak detector disabled\n");
 }
@@ -1688,6 +1699,7 @@ void __init kmemleak_init(void)
 	if (!atomic_read(&kmemleak_error)) {
 		atomic_set(&kmemleak_enabled, 1);
 		atomic_set(&kmemleak_early_log, 0);
+		kmemleak_free_enabled = 1;
 	}
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 

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