Re: [PATCH] kernel/kprobes: add check to avoid kprobe memory leak

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:17:02 +0800
JianKang Chen <chenjiankang1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The function register_kretprobe is used to initialize a struct
> kretprobe and allocate a list table for kprobe instance.
> However,in this function, there is a memory leak.
> 
> The test case:
> 
> static struct kretprobe rp;
> struct  kretprobe *rps[10]={&rp ,&rp ,&rp ,
> &rp ,&rp ,&rp ,&rp ,&rp ,&rp,&rp};

What ? this is buggy code. you must not list same kretprobe.
But, year, since register_kprobe() already has similar protection against
reusing, register_kretprobe() should do so.

[..]
>  	raw_spin_lock_init(&rp->lock);
> +
> +	if (!hlist_empty(&rp->free_instances))
> +		return -EBUSY;
> +

Hmm, but can you use check_kprobe_rereg() before raw_spin_lock_init()?
If user reuses rp after it starts, rp->lock can already be used.

Thank you,

>  	INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&rp->free_instances);
>  	for (i = 0; i < rp->maxactive; i++) {
>  		inst = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kretprobe_instance) +
> -- 
> 1.7.12.4
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>