lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <ed08d96e-c46b-5b6b-aa9b-987972425043@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:35:32 +0800
From:   Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
To:     Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>, <tytso@....edu>, <jack@...e.com>
CC:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: Fix memory leak in journal_init_common()

On 2023/9/11 10:51, Li Zetao wrote:
> There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:
> 
>   unreferenced object 0xff11000105903b80 (size 64):
>     comm "mount", pid 3382, jiffies 4295032021 (age 27.826s)
>     hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>       04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>       ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     backtrace:
>       [<ffffffffae86ac40>] __kmalloc_node+0x50/0x160
>       [<ffffffffaf2486d8>] crypto_alloc_tfmmem.isra.0+0x38/0x110
>       [<ffffffffaf2498e5>] crypto_create_tfm_node+0x85/0x2f0
>       [<ffffffffaf24a92c>] crypto_alloc_tfm_node+0xfc/0x210
>       [<ffffffffaedde777>] journal_init_common+0x727/0x1ad0
>       [<ffffffffaede1715>] jbd2_journal_init_inode+0x2b5/0x500
>       [<ffffffffaed786b5>] ext4_load_and_init_journal+0x255/0x2440
>       [<ffffffffaed8b423>] ext4_fill_super+0x8823/0xa330
>       ...
> 
> The root cause was traced to an error handing path in journal_init_common()
> when malloc memory failed in register_shrinker(). The checksum driver is
> used to reference to checksum algorithm via cryptoapi and the user should
> release the memory when the driver is no longer needed or the journal
> initialization failed.
> 
> Fix it by calling crypto_free_shash() on the "err_cleanup" error handing
> path in journal_init_common().
> 
> Fixes: c30713084ba5 ("jbd2: move load_superblock() into journal_init_common()")
> Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>

Thanks for the fix, it looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>

> ---
>  fs/jbd2/journal.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> index 768fa05bcbed..30dec2bd2ecc 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> @@ -1601,6 +1601,8 @@ static journal_t *journal_init_common(struct block_device *bdev,
>  
>  err_cleanup:
>  	percpu_counter_destroy(&journal->j_checkpoint_jh_count);
> +	if (journal->j_chksum_driver)
> +		crypto_free_shash(journal->j_chksum_driver);
>  	kfree(journal->j_wbuf);
>  	jbd2_journal_destroy_revoke(journal);
>  	journal_fail_superblock(journal);
> 

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ