linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] slab_common: clear pointers to per memcg caches on destroy

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:08:36 +0300
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] slab_common: clear pointers to per memcg caches on
 destroy

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 02:17:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 19:02:40 +0300 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently, we do not clear pointers to per memcg caches in the
> > memcg_params.memcg_caches array when a global cache is destroyed with
> > kmem_cache_destroy. It is fine if the global cache does get destroyed.
> > However, a cache can be left on the list if it still has active objects
> > when kmem_cache_destroy is called (due to a memory leak). If this
> > happens, the entries in the array will point to already freed areas,
> > which is likely to result in data corruption when the cache is reused
> > (via slab merging).
> 
> It's important that we report these leaks so the kernel bug can get
> fixed.  The patch doesn't add such detection and reporting, but it
> could do so?

Reporting individual leaks is up to the slab implementation, we simply
can't do it from the generic code, so we just warn that there is a leak
there. SLUB already dumps addresses of all leaked objects to the log
(see kmem_cache_close -> free_partial -> list_slab_objects).

Thanks,
Vladimir
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/