linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device

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Date:   Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:47:33 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@...il.com>,
        Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: fix memory leak in
 nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group

On 9/6/21 18:56, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> On 9/6/21 08:43, Dongliang Mu wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 12:13 PM Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@...il.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The commit 8fd0c1b0647a ("nilfs2: fix memory leak in
>>> nilfs_sysfs_delete_device_group") adds a kobject_put to free the leaking
>>> object name. However, it is incomplete to only add kobject_put in the
>>> nilfs_sysfs_delete_device_group. The function
>>> nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group also needs the kobject_put to
>>> free the object name in the error handling part.
>>>
>>> Fix this by adding kobject_put in the error handling code of
>>> nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group.
>> 
>> Even after I add this patch, my local syzkaller still reports this
>> memory leak one hour later. Therefore, there are some other paths or
>> magics which can trigger the memory leak. I need to dig deeper.
>> 
>> Pavel, do you have any idea about this crash report?
>> 
>> BUG: memory leak
>> unreferenced object 0xffff88804a1a8a60 (size 32):
>>    comm "syz-executor", pid 14551, jiffies 4294960586 (age 14.780s)
>>    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>>      6c 6f 6f 70 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  loop5...........
>>      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>>    backtrace:
>>      [<ffffffff814750c6>] kstrdup+0x36/0x70
>>      [<ffffffff81475153>] kstrdup_const+0x53/0x80
>>      [<ffffffff822773a2>] kvasprintf_const+0xc2/0x110
>>      [<ffffffff82337c5b>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3b/0xe0
>>      [<ffffffff823385ed>] kobject_init_and_add+0x6d/0xc0
>>      [<ffffffff81d2bd08>] nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group+0x98/0x3a0
>>      [<ffffffff81d14fc4>] init_nilfs+0x424/0x580
>>      [<ffffffff81d02962>] nilfs_mount+0x532/0x8c0
>>      [<ffffffff815c754b>] legacy_get_tree+0x2b/0x90
>>      [<ffffffff81565158>] vfs_get_tree+0x28/0x100
>>      [<ffffffff815a3a82>] path_mount+0xb92/0xfe0
>>      [<ffffffff815a3f71>] do_mount+0xa1/0xc0
>>      [<ffffffff815a4584>] __x64_sys_mount+0xf4/0x160
>>      [<ffffffff8433fd35>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0
>>      [<ffffffff84400068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi, Dongliang!
> 
> 
> This report says nothing to me... It shows, that there is missing
> kobject_put() somewhere. I think, we need a reproducer for this leak,
> otherwise only code review can help :(
> 
> 
> 

Hm, I guess, I see... We should call kobject_put() in case of 
kobject_init_and_add() failure:

lib/kobject.c:459

  * If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
  * properly clean up the memory associated with the object.  This is the


so I suggest:

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
index 68e8d61e28dd..e8717f4ba2a1 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
@@ -1026,6 +1026,7 @@ int nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group(struct 
super_block *sb) 	kobject_del(&nilfs->ns_dev_kobj);

  free_dev_subgroups:
+	kobject_put(&nilfs->ns_dev_kobj);
  	kfree(nilfs->ns_dev_subgroups);

  failed_create_device_group:


This patch should fix 2 memory leaks :)




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin