Re: Possible "struct pid" leak from tty_io.c

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Eric,
>
> For a longer explanation, see the second part of this e-mail. In
> short, the patch below seems to fix this particular leak. I'm not sure
> that's the correct/complete fix as I seem to still get a 2nd report.
> Any info is welcomed.

Sure.  I was starting to suspect that location myself.

> diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
> index e453268..4e33dc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
> @@ -1375,6 +1375,9 @@ static void do_tty_hangup(struct work_struct *work)
> 	}
> 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
>
> +	put_pid(tty->session);
> +	put_pid(tty->pgrp);
> +
> 	tty->flags = 0;
> 	tty->session = NULL;
> 	tty->pgrp = NULL;
>
> On 08/03/07, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > The /sbin/init application calls sys_clone() a few times but only one
>> > leak is reported (see below). Looking at the reported pid object (at
>> > 0xc7c14500), count is 2 and nr is 296 but no process with pid 296
>> > exists any more.
> [...]
>> > unreferenced object 0xc7c14500 (size 36):
>> >  comm "init", pid 245, jiffies 4294939289
>> >  backtrace:
>> >    [<c0070c18>] kmem_cache_alloc
>> >    [<c003a528>] alloc_pid
>> >    [<c0026468>] do_fork
>> >    [<c00153b0>] sys_clone
>> >    [<c0010f80>] ret_fast_syscall
>>
>> I think this is the path that all pid structures come from so
>> unfortunately that doesn't help tracing this problem down.
>
> No, indeed, but that's the only thing kmemleak can report. Anyway, I
> got some more information now, after adding several printk's:
>
> The difference from other pid objects is that this one (with nr 296)
> is passed as a parameter to proc_set_tty(). The __proc_set_tty()
> function increments the pid->count twice via get_pid(), and, with two
> other get_pid calls, the pid->count for this object gets to 5 (1 being
> the initial value). The prints below are function name, struct pid
> address (different from the runs yesterday though), pid->nr and
> pid->count (after get_pid incrementing). It also show the return
> address and symbol (the calling function):
>
>  alloc_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 1
>  get_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 2
>    return: c0122d64 (proc_set_tty+0x34/0x54)
>  get_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c0122d64 (proc_set_tty+0x34/0x54)
>  get_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 4
>    return: c002b328 (do_exit+0x2e4/0x7f8) - this is actually the get_pid
>      in disassociate_ctty but it is reported like this because of get_pid
>      inlining
>  get_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 5
>    return: c0124a0c (tty_vhangup+0x14/0x18)
>
> On the exit path (see below), however, put_pid is called twice before
> free_pid and once via release_task -> detach_pid -> free_pid -> ... ->
> __rcu_process_callbacks -> delayed_put_pid -> put_pid. Note that
> free_pid is called with pid->nr == 3 and the last put_pid gets called
> with nr == 3 as well (but it decrements it to 2 and that's what I find
> at that memory location). In the trace below, the pid->count is
> printed before put_pid modifies it:
>
>  put_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 5
>    return: c0124b5c (disassociate_ctty+0x14c/0x230)
>  put_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 4
>    return: c0124ba8 (disassociate_ctty+0x198/0x230)
>  detach_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c002a230 (release_task+0x1c0/0x358)
>  detach_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c002a248 (release_task+0x1d8/0x358)
>  detach_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c002a254 (release_task+0x1e4/0x358)
>  free_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c003a990 (detach_pid+0xac/0xc8)
>  ...
>  delayed_put_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c003af68 (__rcu_process_callbacks+0x19c/0x25c)
>  put_pid: c7c149d8, 296, 3
>    return: c003a8cc (delayed_put_pid+0x54/0x6c)
>
> In the above disassociate_ctty() function the code below (line 1542)
> doesn't seem to get called:
>
> 	tty = get_current_tty();
> 	if (tty) {
> 		put_pid(tty->session);
> 		put_pid(tty->pgrp);
> 		tty->session = NULL;
> 		tty->pgrp = NULL;
> 	} else {
>
> and I get the following error if TTY_DEBUG_HANGUP is defined - "error
> attempted to write to tty [0x00000000] = NULL".
>
> It looks like the tty_vhangup() call in in disassociate_ctty() sets
> current->signal->tty to NULL in the do_each_pid_task loop in
> do_tty_hangup (p->signal->tty = NULL). The second call to
> get_current_tty() in disassociate_ctty() return NULL and therefore no
> put_pid on tty->session and tty->pgrp (which are also set to NULL in
> the previous function).

Thanks.

If I can manage to focus on this, it looks like the information I need to 
start fixing this.

Adding the reference counting when we didn't have any before is always
interesting.

Eric
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