linux-kernel - Re: crypto: fscrypt: crypto_create_tfm

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Message-ID: <CAJX_Q+3Cp=5WVxACFCuYDfUzndVfeewykYbxSw1f4zyKm0DvsA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:08:25 +0000
From: Lucas Tanure <tanure@...ux.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org>, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, 
	"krzysztof.opasiak@...t.no" <krzysztof.opasiak@...t.no>, "lucas.tanure@...t.no" <lucas.tanure@...t.no>
Subject: Re: crypto: fscrypt: crypto_create_tfm_node memory leak

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 06:43:15PM +0000, Lucas Tanure wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working with Android 13 and V5.15 kernel. During our development,
> > I found a memory leak using kmemleak.
> >
> > Steps I did to find the memleak:
> > mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug
> > echo scan=5 > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> > cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> >
> > Stack I got (hundreds of them):
> > unreferenced object 0xffffff8101d31000 (size 1024):
> >   comm "binder:1357_2", pid 1357, jiffies 4294899464 (age 394.468s)
> >   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >   backtrace:
> >     [<ffffffd327cac060>] crypto_create_tfm_node+0x64/0x228
> >     [<ffffffd3279f8c4c>] fscrypt_prepare_key+0xbc/0x230
> >     [<ffffffd3279f9758>] fscrypt_setup_v1_file_key+0x48c/0x510
> >     [<ffffffd3279f8394>] fscrypt_setup_encryption_info+0x210/0x43c
> >     [<ffffffd3279f8108>] fscrypt_prepare_new_inode+0x128/0x1a4
> >     [<ffffffd327bcc878>] f2fs_new_inode+0x27c/0x89c
> >     [<ffffffd327bce7c4>] f2fs_mkdir+0x78/0x278
> >     [<ffffffd32796a3bc>] vfs_mkdir+0x138/0x204
> >     [<ffffffd32796a108>] do_mkdirat+0x88/0x204
> >     [<ffffffd32796a068>] __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x40/0x58
> >     [<ffffffd3274be5d4>] invoke_syscall+0x60/0x150
> >     [<ffffffd3274be528>] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x114
> >     [<ffffffd3274be3f0>] do_el0_svc+0x28/0x98
> >     [<ffffffd328abcf88>] el0_svc+0x28/0x90
> >     [<ffffffd328abcefc>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
> >     [<ffffffd32741164c>] el0t_64_sync+0x1b8/0x1bc
> >
> > After checking upstream, I came up with the following:
> > cff805b1518f  fscrypt: fix keyring memory leak on mount failure
> >
> > But my kernel has this patch. So I continued to dig around this and
> > saw the function fscrypt_prepare_key in fs/crypto/keysetup.c for
> > V5.15.
> > I can't see the pointer tfm being used anywhere or saved, and
> > smp_store_release doesn't kfree it.
> > Is smp_store_release doing something with that pointer that makes this
> > memory leak a false positive?
> >
> > Any help with this issue would be much appreciated.
> > Thanks
>
> The pointer to the crypto_skcipher 'tfm' is stored in the fscrypt_inode_info
> (previously fscrypt_info) which is stored in inode::i_crypt_info.  It gets freed
> when the inode is evicted.  I don't know why you're getting a kmemleak warning.
> Perhaps f2fs in that version of the kernel has a bug that is leaking inodes.
>
Thanks. How do you check for leaking inodes? Do you have any start
point (function) to look at?

> smp_store_release is just a fancy way of doing a store that includes a memory
> barrier.
>
> - Eric

Lucas