Re: [PATCH -next] exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file

From: Dmitry Kasatkin
Date: Wed Mar 13 2019 - 10:12:37 EST








From: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 1:16 AM
To: Dmitry Kasatkin
Cc: Al Viro; yuehaibing; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gregkh@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file
 
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 04:59:14PM +0000, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
>
>From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:25 AM
>To: yuehaibing
>Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Dmitry Kasatkin; keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file
> 
>On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:10:38AM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
>> syzkaller report this:
>> BUG: memory leak
>> unreferenced object 0xffffc9000488d000 (size 9195520):
>>   comm "syz-executor.0", pid 2752, jiffies 4294787496 (age 18.757s)
>>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>>     ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff a8 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ................
>>     02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 a1 7a c1 ff ff ff ff  ..........z.....
>>   backtrace:
>>     [<000000000863775c>] __vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:1795 [inline]
>>     [<000000000863775c>] __vmalloc_node_flags mm/vmalloc.c:1809 [inline]
>>     [<000000000863775c>] vmalloc+0x8c/0xb0 mm/vmalloc.c:1831
>>     [<000000003f668111>] kernel_read_file+0x58f/0x7d0 fs/exec.c:924
>>     [<000000002385813f>] kernel_read_file_from_fd+0x49/0x80 fs/exec.c:993
>>     [<0000000011953ff1>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x13b/0x2a0 kernel/module.c:3895
>>     [<000000006f58491f>] do_syscall_64+0x147/0x600 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
>>     [<00000000ee78baf4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>>     [<00000000241f889b>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>>
>> It should goto 'out_free' lable to free allocated buf while kernel_read
>> fails.
>
>Applied.
>
>
>This must be applied to stables as well...

> It's already in all relevant stable trees...

I only can see in longterm 4.19.

What about 4.9 and 4.14?

Thanks,
Dmitry