linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.15 111/128] kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

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Message-Id: <20211227151335.224672444@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:31:26 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>,
        Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 111/128] kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>

commit 0129ab1f268b6cf88825eae819b9b84aa0a85634 upstream.

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:
         seq_open+0x2a/0x80
         full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0
         do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0
         path_openat+0x961/0xa20
         do_filp_open+0xae/0x120
         do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0
         do_sys_open+0x57/0x80
         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
         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:
         seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440
         seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0
         full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80
         vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0
         ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0
         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
         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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211206133628.2822545-1-libaokun1@huawei.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/kfence/core.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static const struct file_operations obje
 	.open = open_objects,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.llseek = seq_lseek,
+	.release = seq_release,
 };
 
 static int __init kfence_debugfs_init(void)