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Message-ID: <d3a67b6e-c5df-4175-ba75-72aac63a7986@fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:45:02 +0000
From: "Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)" <lizhijian@...itsu.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, "nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev"
<nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev>
CC: "vishal.l.verma@...el.com" <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
"dave.jiang@...el.com" <dave.jiang@...el.com>, "ira.weiny@...el.com"
<ira.weiny@...el.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nvdimm: Fix devs leaks in scan_labels()
(Just back from the summer holiday)
Sorry for the late reply.
On 10/08/2024 06:38, Dan Williams wrote:
> I notice this patch is not upstream yet. Let's try to get it over the
> goal line.
>
> Li Zhijian wrote:
>> The leakage would happen when create_namespace_pmem() meets an invalid
>> label which gets failure in validating isetcookie.
>
> I would rewrite this as:
>
> "scan_labels() leaks memory when label scanning fails and it falls back
> to just creating a default "seed" namespace for userspace to configure.
> Root can force the kernel to leak memory."
It sounds good to me.
>
> ...then a distribution developer knows the urgency to backport this fix.
>
>> Try to resuse the devs that may have already been allocated with size
>> (2 * sizeof(dev)) previously.
>
> Rather than conditionally reallocating I think it would be better to
> unconditionally allocate the minimum, something like:
Okay, I will update it in V3.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
> index d6d558f94d6b..1c38c93bee21 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
> @@ -1937,12 +1937,16 @@ static int cmp_dpa(const void *a, const void *b)
> static struct device **scan_labels(struct nd_region *nd_region)
> {
> int i, count = 0;
> - struct device *dev, **devs = NULL;
> + struct device *dev, **devs;
> struct nd_label_ent *label_ent, *e;
> struct nd_mapping *nd_mapping = &nd_region->mapping[0];
> struct nvdimm_drvdata *ndd = to_ndd(nd_mapping);
> resource_size_t map_end = nd_mapping->start + nd_mapping->size - 1;
>
> + devs = kcalloc(2, sizeof(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!devs)
> + return NULL;
> +
> /* "safe" because create_namespace_pmem() might list_move() label_ent */
> list_for_each_entry_safe(label_ent, e, &nd_mapping->labels, list) {
> struct nd_namespace_label *nd_label = label_ent->label;
> @@ -1961,12 +1965,14 @@ static struct device **scan_labels(struct nd_region *nd_region)
> goto err;
> if (i < count)
> continue;
> - __devs = kcalloc(count + 2, sizeof(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!__devs)
> - goto err;
> - memcpy(__devs, devs, sizeof(dev) * count);
> - kfree(devs);
> - devs = __devs;
> + if (count) {
> + __devs = kcalloc(count + 2, sizeof(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!__devs)
> + goto err;
> + memcpy(__devs, devs, sizeof(dev) * count);
> + kfree(devs);
> + devs = __devs;
> + }
>
> dev = create_namespace_pmem(nd_region, nd_mapping, nd_label);
> if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
> @@ -1994,10 +2000,6 @@ static struct device **scan_labels(struct nd_region *nd_region)
> /* Publish a zero-sized namespace for userspace to configure. */
> nd_mapping_free_labels(nd_mapping);
>
> - devs = kcalloc(2, sizeof(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!devs)
> - goto err;
> -
> nspm = kzalloc(sizeof(*nspm), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!nspm)
> goto err;
> @@ -2036,12 +2038,10 @@ static struct device **scan_labels(struct nd_region *nd_region)
> return devs;
>
> err:
> - if (devs) {
> - for (i = 0; devs[i]; i++)
> - namespace_pmem_release(devs[i]);
> - kfree(devs);
> - }
> - return NULL;
> + for (i = 0; devs[i]; i++)
> + namespace_pmem_release(devs[i]);
> + kfree(devs);
> + return NULL;
> }
>
> static struct device **create_namespaces(struct nd_region *nd_region)
>
>
>> A kmemleak reports:
>> unreferenced object 0xffff88800dda1980 (size 16):
>> comm "kworker/u10:5", pid 69, jiffies 4294671781
>> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
>> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
>> backtrace (crc 0):
>> [<00000000c5dea560>] __kmalloc+0x32c/0x470
>> [<000000009ed43c83>] nd_region_register_namespaces+0x6fb/0x1120 [libnvdimm]
>> [<000000000e07a65c>] nd_region_probe+0xfe/0x210 [libnvdimm]
>> [<000000007b79ce5f>] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x7a/0x1e0 [libnvdimm]
>> [<00000000a5f3da2e>] really_probe+0xc6/0x390
>> [<00000000129e2a69>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x150
>> [<000000002dfed28b>] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
>> [<00000000e7048de2>] __device_attach_driver+0x85/0x110
>> [<0000000032dca295>] bus_for_each_drv+0x85/0xe0
>> [<00000000391c5a7d>] __device_attach+0xbe/0x1e0
>> [<0000000026dabec0>] bus_probe_device+0x94/0xb0
>> [<00000000c590d936>] device_add+0x656/0x870
>> [<000000003d69bfaa>] nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x50 [libnvdimm]
>> [<000000003f4c52a4>] async_run_entry_fn+0x2e/0x110
>> [<00000000e201f4b0>] process_one_work+0x1ee/0x600
>> [<000000006d90d5a9>] worker_thread+0x183/0x350
>
> Thanks for including this.
>
> With the above changes you can add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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