linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

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Message-ID: <20211206133628.2822545-1-libaokun1@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Dec 2021 21:36:28 +0800
From:   Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
To:     <glider@...gle.com>, <elver@...gle.com>, <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
CC:     <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <libaokun1@...wei.com>,
        <yukuai3@...wei.com>, Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next] kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

Hulk robot reported a kmemleak problem:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
unreferenced object 0xffff93d1d8cc02e8 (size 248):
  comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 40 85 19 d4 93 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  .@..............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000db5610b3>] seq_open+0x2a/0x80
    [<00000000d66ac99d>] full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0
    [<00000000d58ef917>] do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0
    [<0000000016c91867>] path_openat+0x961/0xa20
    [<00000000909c9564>] do_filp_open+0xae/0x120
    [<0000000059c761e6>] do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0
    [<00000000b7a7b239>] do_sys_open+0x57/0x80
    [<00000000e559d671>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
    [<000000000ea1fbfd>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
unreferenced object 0xffff93d419854000 (size 4096):
  comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    6b 66 65 6e 63 65 2d 23 32 35 30 3a 20 30 78 30  kfence-#250: 0x0
    30 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 35 34 62 64 61 31 32 2d  0000000754bda12-
  backtrace:
    [<000000008162c6f2>] seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440
    [<0000000020b1b3e3>] seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0
    [<00000000af248fbc>] full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80
    [<00000000f97679d1>] vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0
    [<000000000ed8a36f>] ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0
    [<00000000e559d671>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
    [<000000000ea1fbfd>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I find that we can easily reproduce this problem with the following
commands:
	`cat /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects`
	`echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak`
	`cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak`

The leaked memory is allocated in the stack below:
----------------------------------
do_syscall_64
  do_sys_open
    do_dentry_open
      full_proxy_open
        seq_open            ---> alloc seq_file
  vfs_read
    full_proxy_read
      seq_read
        seq_read_iter
          traverse          ---> alloc seq_buf
----------------------------------

And it should have been released in the following process:
----------------------------------
do_syscall_64
  syscall_exit_to_user_mode
    exit_to_user_mode_prepare
      task_work_run
        ____fput
          __fput
            full_proxy_release  ---> free here
----------------------------------

However, the release function corresponding to file_operations is not
implemented in kfence. As a result, a memory leak occurs. Therefore,
the solution to this problem is to implement the corresponding
release function.

Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
---
 mm/kfence/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index 46103a7628a6..186838f062b2 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ static const struct file_operations objects_fops = {
 	.open = open_objects,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.llseek = seq_lseek,
+	.release = seq_release,
 };
 
 static int __init kfence_debugfs_init(void)
-- 
2.31.1