Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()

[Zhihao Cheng]

在 2022/10/22 19:52, Li Zetao 写道:
> kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:
>
>    unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024):
>      comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s)
>      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>      backtrace:
>        [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
>        [<ffffffffa0406b2b>] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs]
>        [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
>        [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
>        [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
>        [<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
>        [<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
>        [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
>
>    unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512):
>      comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s)
>      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>        6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
>        6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
>      backtrace:
>        [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
>        [<ffffffffa0418342>] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs]
>        [<ffffffffa0406ca5>] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs]
>        [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
>        [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
>        [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
>        [<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
>        [<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
>        [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
>
> The problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the
> loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes
> that were successfully alloced before are not freed.
>
> Fix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees
> the memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error.
>
> Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
> Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   fs/ubifs/super.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>