linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: fix check for softirq context

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Date:   Sat, 18 May 2019 09:10:59 +0200
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: fix check for softirq context

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:37 PM Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2019 19:15:07 +0200 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> >
> > in_softirq() is a wrong predicate to check if we are in a softirq context.
> > It also returns true if we have BH disabled, so objects are falsely
> > stamped with "softirq" comm. The correct predicate is in_serving_softirq().
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> > +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> > @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,
> >       if (in_irq()) {
> >               object->pid = 0;
> >               strncpy(object->comm, "hardirq", sizeof(object->comm));
> > -     } else if (in_softirq()) {
> > +     } else if (in_serving_softirq()) {
> >               object->pid = 0;
> >               strncpy(object->comm, "softirq", sizeof(object->comm));
> >       } else {
>
> What are the user-visible runtime effects of this change?


If user does cat from /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak previously they would
see this, which is clearly wrong, this is system call context (see the
comm):

unreferenced object 0xffff88805bd661c0 (size 64):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294942959 (age 12.400s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive
include/linux/kmemleak.h:55 [inline]
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:439 [inline]
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] slab_alloc mm/slab.c:3326 [inline]
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x13d/0x280 mm/slab.c:3553
    [<00000000969722b7>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:547 [inline]
    [<00000000969722b7>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:742 [inline]
    [<00000000969722b7>] ip_mc_add1_src net/ipv4/igmp.c:1961 [inline]
    [<00000000969722b7>] ip_mc_add_src+0x36b/0x400 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2085
    [<00000000a4134b5f>] ip_mc_msfilter+0x22d/0x310 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2475
    [<00000000d20248ad>] do_ip_setsockopt.isra.0+0x19fe/0x1c00
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:957
    [<000000003d367be7>] ip_setsockopt+0x3b/0xb0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1246
    [<000000003c7c76af>] udp_setsockopt+0x4e/0x90 net/ipv4/udp.c:2616
    [<000000000c1aeb23>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x3e/0x50 net/core/sock.c:3130
    [<000000000157b92b>] __sys_setsockopt+0x9e/0x120 net/socket.c:2078
    [<00000000a9f3d058>] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2089 [inline]
    [<00000000a9f3d058>] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2086 [inline]
    [<00000000a9f3d058>] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x26/0x30 net/socket.c:2086
    [<000000001b8da885>] do_syscall_64+0x7c/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:301
    [<00000000ba770c62>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

now they will see this:

unreferenced object 0xffff88805413c800 (size 64):
  comm "syz-executor.4", pid 8960, jiffies 4294994003 (age 14.350s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 7a 8a 57 80 88 ff ff e0 00 00 01 00 00 00 00  .z.W............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000c5d3be64>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive
include/linux/kmemleak.h:55 [inline]
    [<00000000c5d3be64>] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:439 [inline]
    [<00000000c5d3be64>] slab_alloc mm/slab.c:3326 [inline]
    [<00000000c5d3be64>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x13d/0x280 mm/slab.c:3553
    [<0000000023865be2>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:547 [inline]
    [<0000000023865be2>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:742 [inline]
    [<0000000023865be2>] ip_mc_add1_src net/ipv4/igmp.c:1961 [inline]
    [<0000000023865be2>] ip_mc_add_src+0x36b/0x400 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2085
    [<000000003029a9d4>] ip_mc_msfilter+0x22d/0x310 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2475
    [<00000000ccd0a87c>] do_ip_setsockopt.isra.0+0x19fe/0x1c00
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:957
    [<00000000a85a3785>] ip_setsockopt+0x3b/0xb0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1246
    [<00000000ec13c18d>] udp_setsockopt+0x4e/0x90 net/ipv4/udp.c:2616
    [<0000000052d748e3>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x3e/0x50 net/core/sock.c:3130
    [<00000000512f1014>] __sys_setsockopt+0x9e/0x120 net/socket.c:2078
    [<00000000181758bc>] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2089 [inline]
    [<00000000181758bc>] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2086 [inline]
    [<00000000181758bc>] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x26/0x30 net/socket.c:2086
    [<00000000d4b73623>] do_syscall_64+0x7c/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:301
    [<00000000c1098bec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9