linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale

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Message-ID: <20241012171559.2c118a2f@jic23-huawei>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:15:59 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
Cc: <mazziesaccount@...il.com>, <lars@...afoo.de>,
 <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in
 iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:55:12 +0800
Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com> wrote:

> modprobe iio-test-gts and rmmod it, then the following memory leak
> occurs:
> 
> 	unreferenced object 0xffffff80c810be00 (size 64):
> 	  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1654, jiffies 4294913981
> 	  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 	    02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 40 00 00 00  ........ ...@...
> 	    80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00  ................
> 	  backtrace (crc a63d875e):
> 	    [<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
> 	    [<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
> 	    [<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
> 	    [<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
> 	    [<000000000315bc18>] 0xffffffdf052a6488
> 	    [<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
> 	    [<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
> 	    [<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
> 	    [<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> 	unreferenced object 0xffffff80cbfe9e70 (size 16):
> 	  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1658, jiffies 4294914015
> 	  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
> 	    10 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....@...........
> 	  backtrace (crc 857f0cb4):
> 	    [<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
> 	    [<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0
> 	    [<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4
> 	    [<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0
> 	    [<000000007d089d45>] 0xffffffdf052a6864
> 	    [<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
> 	    [<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
> 	    [<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
> 	    [<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> 	......
> 
> It includes 5*5 times "size 64" memory leaks, which correspond to 5 times
> test_init_iio_gain_scale() calls with gts_test_gains size 10 (10*size(int))
> and gts_test_itimes size 5. It also includes 5*1 times "size 16"
> memory leak, which correspond to one time __test_init_iio_gain_scale()
> call with gts_test_gains_gain_low size 3 (3*size(int)) and gts_test_itimes
> size 5.
> 
> The reason is that the per_time_gains[i] is not freed which is allocated in
> the "gts->num_itime" for loop in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table().
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 38416c28e168 ("iio: light: Add gain-time-scale helpers")
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>
Hi Jinjie,

Your explanation looks correct to me.  I'll wait a while though to give Matti time
to take a look as well.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> index 59d7615c0f56..7326c7949244 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> @@ -307,6 +307,8 @@ static int iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table(struct iio_gts *gts)
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto err_free_out;
>  
> +	for (i = 0; i < gts->num_itime; i++)
> +		kfree(per_time_gains[i]);
>  	kfree(per_time_gains);
>  	gts->per_time_avail_scale_tables = per_time_scales;
>