linux-kernel - Re: gigaset: memory leak in gigaset

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Message-ID: <1455231255.4135.46.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:54:15 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:	Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller@...glegroups.com,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: gigaset: memory leak in gigaset_initcshw

Hi Dmitry,

On vr, 2016-02-05 at 17:06 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On vr, 2016-02-05 at 14:28 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > I wonder why you don't see the leak I am seeing...
> 
> So do I, for a few days now.

0) I finally managed to reliably trigger this leak on an i686, single
core machine (yet another ThinkPad).

1) Note that on that machine the leak was noticeable under the kmalloc
-512 line (struct ser_cardstate is 456 bytes on that machine). I'm
_guessing_ the kmalloc-2048 line, which I stared at for quite some time,
is only relevant here for x86_64 and when there's a bit of
instrumentation, or whatever, added to the slab objects (as they are in
your VM?).

2) More important was that this i686 machine ran a tree that actually
included the offending commit:
	25cad69f21f5 ("base/platform: Fix platform drivers with no probe callback").

See, after staring at the gigaset code for way too long I decided to
just use brute force. Ie, I bisected this issue.

2) Anyhow, thanks again for the report. Now on to the next question: how
on earth does that commit make ser_gigaset leak struct ser_cardstate?

To be continued,


Paul Bolle