[PATCH v2] mm: slub: fix the leak of alloc/free traces debugfs interface

From: Faiyaz Mohammed
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 00:06:15 EST


Fix the leak of alloc/free traces debugfs interface, reported
by kmemleak like below,

unreferenced object 0xffff00091ae1b540 (size 64):
comm "lsbug", pid 1607, jiffies 4294958291 (age 1476.340s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b ........kkkkkkkk
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
backtrace:
[<ffff8000106b06b8>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0xa0/0x418
[<ffff8000106b5c7c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1e4/0x378
[<ffff8000106b5e40>] slab_debugfs_start+0x30/0x50
slab_debugfs_start at mm/slub.c:5831
[<ffff8000107b3dbc>] seq_read_iter+0x214/0xd50
[<ffff8000107b4b84>] seq_read+0x28c/0x418
[<ffff8000109560b4>] full_proxy_read+0xdc/0x148
[<ffff800010738f24>] vfs_read+0x104/0x340
[<ffff800010739ee0>] ksys_read+0xf8/0x1e0
[<ffff80001073a03c>] __arm64_sys_read+0x74/0xa8

Fixes: 3589836402ca ("mm: slub: move sysfs slab alloc/free interfaces to debugfs")
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/mm/slub.c?h=next-20210617&id=84a2bdb1b458fc968d6d9e07dab388dc679bd747
Signed-off-by: Faiyaz Mohammed <faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 changes:
- Updated the comparison in slab_debugfs_next().

v1 changes:
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1624019875-611-1-git-send-email-faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

mm/slub.c | 20 ++++++--------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index fcb0c50..971d61d 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5785,31 +5785,23 @@ static int slab_debugfs_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)

static void slab_debugfs_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
{
- kfree(v);
}

static void *slab_debugfs_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *ppos)
{
- loff_t *spos = v;
struct loc_track *t = seq->private;

- if (*ppos < t->count) {
- *ppos = ++*spos;
- return spos;
- }
- *ppos = ++*spos;
+ v = ppos;
+ ++*ppos;
+ if (*ppos <= t->count)
+ return v;
+
return NULL;
}

static void *slab_debugfs_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *ppos)
{
- loff_t *spos = kmalloc(sizeof(loff_t), GFP_KERNEL);
-
- if (!spos)
- return NULL;
-
- *spos = *ppos;
- return spos;
+ return ppos;
}

static const struct seq_operations slab_debugfs_sops = {
--
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