linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RDMA/restrack: Fix potential invalid address access

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Message-ID: <20240307091317.GA8392@unreal>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:13:17 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao2@...wei.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDMA/restrack: Fix potential invalid address access

On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 05:55:15PM +0800, Wenchao Hao wrote:
> struct rdma_restrack_entry's kern_name was set to KBUILD_MODNAME
> in ib_create_cq(), while if the module exited but forgot del this
> rdma_restrack_entry, it would cause a invalid address access in
> rdma_restrack_clean() when print the owner of this rdma_restrack_entry.
> 
> Fix this issue by using kstrdup() to set rdma_restrack_entry's
> kern_name.

I don't like kstrdup() and would like to avoid it, this rdma_restrack_clean()
is purely for debugging and for a long time all upstream ULPs are "clean"
from these not-released bugs.

So my suggestion is to delete that part of code and it will be good enough.

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
index 01a499a8b88d..27727138f188 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
@@ -60,47 +60,14 @@ static const char *type2str(enum rdma_restrack_type type)
 void rdma_restrack_clean(struct ib_device *dev)
 {
 	struct rdma_restrack_root *rt = dev->res;
-	struct rdma_restrack_entry *e;
-	char buf[TASK_COMM_LEN];
-	bool found = false;
-	const char *owner;
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0 ; i < RDMA_RESTRACK_MAX; i++) {
 		struct xarray *xa = &dev->res[i].xa;
 
-		if (!xa_empty(xa)) {
-			unsigned long index;
-
-			if (!found) {
-				pr_err("restrack: %s", CUT_HERE);
-				dev_err(&dev->dev, "BUG: RESTRACK detected leak of resources\n");
-			}
-			xa_for_each(xa, index, e) {
-				if (rdma_is_kernel_res(e)) {
-					owner = e->kern_name;
-				} else {
-					/*
-					 * There is no need to call get_task_struct here,
-					 * because we can be here only if there are more
-					 * get_task_struct() call than put_task_struct().
-					 */
-					get_task_comm(buf, e->task);
-					owner = buf;
-				}
-
-				pr_err("restrack: %s %s object allocated by %s is not freed\n",
-				       rdma_is_kernel_res(e) ? "Kernel" :
-							       "User",
-				       type2str(e->type), owner);
-			}
-			found = true;
-		}
+		WARN_ON(!xa_empty(xa));
 		xa_destroy(xa);
 	}
-	if (found)
-		pr_err("restrack: %s", CUT_HERE);
-
 	kfree(rt);
 }
 

> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao2@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
> index 01a499a8b88d..6605011c4edc 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ static void rdma_restrack_attach_task(struct rdma_restrack_entry *res,
>  void rdma_restrack_set_name(struct rdma_restrack_entry *res, const char *caller)
>  {
>  	if (caller) {
> -		res->kern_name = caller;
> +		kfree(res->kern_name);
> +		res->kern_name = kstrdup(caller, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ void rdma_restrack_parent_name(struct rdma_restrack_entry *dst,
>  			       const struct rdma_restrack_entry *parent)
>  {
>  	if (rdma_is_kernel_res(parent))
> -		dst->kern_name = parent->kern_name;
> +		dst->kern_name = kstrdup(parent->kern_name, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	else
>  		rdma_restrack_attach_task(dst, parent->task);
>  }
> @@ -306,6 +307,7 @@ static void restrack_release(struct kref *kref)
>  		put_task_struct(res->task);
>  		res->task = NULL;
>  	}
> +	kfree(res->kern_name);
>  	complete(&res->comp);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.32.0
>