linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leak in damon_new

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Message-ID: <efa81da6-f8c6-e4c0-1d9c-24fb72681c54@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:13:07 +0800
From:   Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
To:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
CC:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <brendan.higgins@...ux.dev>,
        <feng.tang@...el.com>, <damon@...ts.linux.dev>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <kunit-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leak in
 damon_new_region()



On 2023/9/18 13:33, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Hi Jinjie,
> 
> 
> Thank you for this patchset!
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:10:43 +0800 Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com> wrote:
> 
>> The damon_region which is allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() in
>> damon_new_region() in damon_test_regions() and
>> damon_test_update_monitoring_result() are not freed and it causes below
>> memory leak. So use damon_free_region() to free it.
>>
>> unreferenced object 0xffff2b49c3edc000 (size 56):
>>   comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 338, jiffies 4294895280 (age 557.084s)
>>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>>     01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 49 2b ff ff  ............I+..
>>   backtrace:
>>     [<0000000088e71769>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0xb8/0x368
>>     [<00000000b528f67c>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x168/0x284
>>     [<000000008603f022>] damon_new_region+0x28/0x54
>>     [<00000000a3b8c64e>] damon_test_regions+0x38/0x270
>>     [<00000000559c4801>] kunit_try_run_case+0x50/0xac
>>     [<000000003932ed49>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x20/0x2c
>>     [<000000003c3e9211>] kthread+0x124/0x130
>>     [<0000000028f85bdd>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>> unreferenced object 0xffff2b49c5b20000 (size 56):
>>   comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 354, jiffies 4294895304 (age 556.988s)
>>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>>     03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 49 2b ff ff  ............I+..
>>   backtrace:
>>     [<0000000088e71769>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0xb8/0x368
>>     [<00000000b528f67c>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x168/0x284
>>     [<000000008603f022>] damon_new_region+0x28/0x54
>>     [<00000000ca019f80>] damon_test_update_monitoring_result+0x18/0x34
>>     [<00000000559c4801>] kunit_try_run_case+0x50/0xac
>>     [<000000003932ed49>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x20/0x2c
>>     [<000000003c3e9211>] kthread+0x124/0x130
>>     [<0000000028f85bdd>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> 
> Nice finding!  Could you please share just a brief more detail about above cool
> output, e.g., just the name of the tool you used, so that others can learn it
> from your awesome commit message?
> 
>>
>> Fixes: 17ccae8bb5c9 ("mm/damon: add kunit tests")
>> Fixes: f4c978b6594b ("mm/damon/core-test: add a test for damon_update_monitoring_results()")
>> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/damon/core-test.h | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/damon/core-test.h b/mm/damon/core-test.h
>> index 6cc8b245586d..255f8c925c00 100644
>> --- a/mm/damon/core-test.h
>> +++ b/mm/damon/core-test.h
>> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static void damon_test_regions(struct kunit *test)
>>  	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, damon_nr_regions(t));
>>  
>>  	damon_free_target(t);
>> +	damon_free_region(r);
> 
> There is damon_destroy_region() function, which simply calls damon_del_region()
> and damon_free_region().  Unless there is needs to access the region before
> removing from the region, doing memory return together via the function is
> recommended.
> 
> And this test code calls damon_del_region() just beofre above
> KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ().  Hence, I think replacing the damon_del_region() call with
> damon_destroy_region() rather than calling damon_free_region() may be simpler
> and shorter.  Could you please do so?

Sure. Thank you very much!

> 
>>  }
>>  
>>  static unsigned int nr_damon_targets(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
>> @@ -316,6 +317,8 @@ static void damon_test_update_monitoring_result(struct kunit *test)
>>  	damon_update_monitoring_result(r, &old_attrs, &new_attrs);
>>  	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->nr_accesses, 150);
>>  	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->age, 20);
>> +
>> +	damon_free_region(r);
> 
> This looks nice.  Thank you for fixing this!
> 
>>  }
>>  
>>  static void damon_test_set_attrs(struct kunit *test)
>> -- 
>> 2.34.1
>>
> 
> Thanks,
> SJ