linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 14/17] kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks

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Date:   Tue,  7 Aug 2018 20:51:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 14/17] kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>

commit ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008 upstream.

Kmemleak considers any pointers on task stacks as references.  This
patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150728990124.744199.8403409836394318684.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
[ Srivatsa: Backported to 4.9.y ]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/thread_info.h |    2 +-
 kernel/fork.c               |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ extern long do_no_restart_syscall(struct
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK)
 # define THREADINFO_GFP		(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOTRACK | \
 				 __GFP_ZERO)
 #else
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack
 			continue;
 		this_cpu_write(cached_stacks[i], NULL);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+		/* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */
+		memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
+#endif
 		tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
 		local_irq_enable();
 		return s->addr;