Re: [PATCH 1/3] freevxfs: fix buffer_head leak

[Andrew Morton]

Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch fixes a buffer_head leak in the function vxfs_getfsh by
> allocating the buffer before doing sb_bread(). In addition, the patch
> replaces misused SLAB_KERNEL flag with the proper GFP_KERNEL and adds
> a NULL check for sb_bread.
> 

Yes, there does seem to be a leak there.

> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.orig/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c	2005-06-28 19:48:12.000000000 +0300
> +++ 2.6/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c	2005-06-28 19:48:34.000000000 +0300
> @@ -76,19 +76,22 @@
>  vxfs_getfsh(struct inode *ip, int which)
>  {
>  	struct buffer_head		*bp;
> +	struct vxfs_fsh			*fhp;
> +
> +	if (!(fhp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fhp), GFP_KERNEL)))
> +		goto failed;
>  
>  	bp = vxfs_bread(ip, which);
> -	if (buffer_mapped(bp)) {
> -		struct vxfs_fsh		*fhp;
> +	if (!bp || !buffer_mapped(bp))
> +		goto failed;
>  
> -		if (!(fhp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fhp), SLAB_KERNEL)))
> -			return NULL;
> -		memcpy(fhp, bp->b_data, sizeof(*fhp));
> +	memcpy(fhp, bp->b_data, sizeof(*fhp));
>  
> -		brelse(bp);
> -		return (fhp);
> -	}
> +	brelse(bp);
> +	return fhp;
>  
> +failed:
> +	kfree(fhp);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  

But your change means that we'll always perform that kmalloc, even if the
buffer came back !buffer_mapped().

<looks>

I don't think sb_bread() can return an unmapped buffer at all.

And sb_bread() can return NULL (I/O error) and we're not checking for that
in there.

Something like this?

diff -puN fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c~freevxfs-fix-buffer_head-leak fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c
--- 25/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c~freevxfs-fix-buffer_head-leak	Tue Jun 28 16:19:53 2005
+++ 25-akpm/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c	Tue Jun 28 16:24:53 2005
@@ -78,14 +78,16 @@ vxfs_getfsh(struct inode *ip, int which)
 	struct buffer_head		*bp;
 
 	bp = vxfs_bread(ip, which);
-	if (buffer_mapped(bp)) {
+	if (bp && buffer_mapped(bp)) {
 		struct vxfs_fsh		*fhp;
 
-		if (!(fhp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fhp), SLAB_KERNEL)))
+		if (!(fhp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fhp), GFP_KERNEL))) {
+			put_bh(bp);
 			return NULL;
+		}
 		memcpy(fhp, bp->b_data, sizeof(*fhp));
 
-		brelse(bp);
+		put_bh(bp);
 		return (fhp);
 	}
 
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