[PATCH v2] mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Mon Mar 21 2022 - 07:59:49 EST


If mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be
freed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not
initialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might leak
the unused mpol_new. This issue could be triggered easily with the below
code snippet if there're many processes doing the below work at the same
time:

shmid = shmget((key_t)5566, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, 0666|IPC_CREAT);
shm = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);
loop many times {
mbind(shm, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_LOCAL, mask, maxnode, 0);
mbind(shm + 128 * PAGE_SIZE, 128 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_DEFAULT, mask,
maxnode, 0);
}

Fixes: 42288fe366c4 ("mm: mempolicy: Convert shared_policy mutex to spinlock")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.8
---
v1->v2:
Add reproducer snippet and Cc stable.
Thanks Michal Hocko for review and comment!
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index a2516d31db6c..4cdd425b2752 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2733,6 +2733,7 @@ static int shared_policy_replace(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start,
mpol_new = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mpol_new)
goto err_out;
+ refcount_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1);
goto restart;
}

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