Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group

[Pavel Skripkin]

On 9/6/21 08:43, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 12:13 PM Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The commit 8fd0c1b0647a ("nilfs2: fix memory leak in
> > nilfs_sysfs_delete_device_group") adds a kobject_put to free the leaking
> > object name. However, it is incomplete to only add kobject_put in the
> > nilfs_sysfs_delete_device_group. The function
> > nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group also needs the kobject_put to
> > free the object name in the error handling part.
> >
> > Fix this by adding kobject_put in the error handling code of
> > nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group.
>
> Even after I add this patch, my local syzkaller still reports this
> memory leak one hour later. Therefore, there are some other paths or
> magics which can trigger the memory leak. I need to dig deeper.
>
> Pavel, do you have any idea about this crash report?
>
> BUG: memory leak
> unreferenced object 0xffff88804a1a8a60 (size 32):
>    comm "syz-executor", pid 14551, jiffies 4294960586 (age 14.780s)
>    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>      6c 6f 6f 70 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  loop5...........
>      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>    backtrace:
>      [<ffffffff814750c6>] kstrdup+0x36/0x70
>      [<ffffffff81475153>] kstrdup_const+0x53/0x80
>      [<ffffffff822773a2>] kvasprintf_const+0xc2/0x110
>      [<ffffffff82337c5b>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3b/0xe0
>      [<ffffffff823385ed>] kobject_init_and_add+0x6d/0xc0
>      [<ffffffff81d2bd08>] nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group+0x98/0x3a0
>      [<ffffffff81d14fc4>] init_nilfs+0x424/0x580
>      [<ffffffff81d02962>] nilfs_mount+0x532/0x8c0
>      [<ffffffff815c754b>] legacy_get_tree+0x2b/0x90
>      [<ffffffff81565158>] vfs_get_tree+0x28/0x100
>      [<ffffffff815a3a82>] path_mount+0xb92/0xfe0
>      [<ffffffff815a3f71>] do_mount+0xa1/0xc0
>      [<ffffffff815a4584>] __x64_sys_mount+0xf4/0x160
>      [<ffffffff8433fd35>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0
>      [<ffffffff84400068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Hi, Dongliang!


This report says nothing to me... It shows, that there is missing 
kobject_put() somewhere. I think, we need a reproducer for this leak, 
otherwise only code review can help :(



With regards,
Pavel Skripkin