Re: [PATCH v2] mm: shrinker: avoid memleak in alloc_shrinker_info

From: Muchun Song
Date: Wed Oct 16 2024 - 09:38:03 EST




> On Oct 16, 2024, at 18:17, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:21:30AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:25, chenridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2024/10/15 14:55, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>> On 10/14/24 16:59, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 03:23:36AM +0000, Chen Ridong wrote:
>>>>>> From: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A memleak was found as bellow:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> unreferenced object 0xffff8881010d2a80 (size 32):
>>>>>> comm "mkdir", pid 1559, jiffies 4294932666
>>>>>> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>>>>>> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
>>>>>> 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @...............
>>>>>> backtrace (crc 2e7ef6fa):
>>>>>> [<ffffffff81372754>] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x394/0x470
>>>>>> [<ffffffff813024ab>] alloc_shrinker_info+0x7b/0x1a0
>>>>>> [<ffffffff813b526a>] mem_cgroup_css_online+0x11a/0x3b0
>>>>>> [<ffffffff81198dd9>] online_css+0x29/0xa0
>>>>>> [<ffffffff811a243d>] cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x20d/0x360
>>>>>> [<ffffffff811a5728>] cgroup_mkdir+0x168/0x5f0
>>>>>> [<ffffffff8148543e>] kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x5e/0x90
>>>>>> [<ffffffff813dbb24>] vfs_mkdir+0x144/0x220
>>>>>> [<ffffffff813e1c97>] do_mkdirat+0x87/0x130
>>>>>> [<ffffffff813e1de9>] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x49/0x70
>>>>>> [<ffffffff81f8c928>] do_syscall_64+0x68/0x140
>>>>>> [<ffffffff8200012f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the alloc_shrinker_info function, when shrinker_unit_alloc return
>>>>>> err, the info won't be freed. Just fix it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: 307bececcd12 ("mm: shrinker: add a secondary array for shrinker_info::{map, nr_deferred}")
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> mm/shrinker.c | 1 +
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c
>>>>>> index dc5d2a6fcfc4..92270413190d 100644
>>>>>> --- a/mm/shrinker.c
>>>>>> +++ b/mm/shrinker.c
>>>>>> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>>>>>> err:
>>>>>> mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
>>>>>> + kvfree(info);
>>>>>> free_shrinker_info(memcg);
>>>>>> return -ENOMEM;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> NAK. If in the future there going to one more error case after
>>>>> rcu_assign_pointer() we will end up with double free.
>>>>>
>>>>> This should be safer:
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c
>>>>> index dc5d2a6fcfc4..763fd556bc7d 100644
>>>>> --- a/mm/shrinker.c
>>>>> +++ b/mm/shrinker.c
>>>>> @@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>>>>> if (!info)
>>>>> goto err;
>>>>> info->map_nr_max = shrinker_nr_max;
>>>>> - if (shrinker_unit_alloc(info, NULL, nid))
>>>>> + if (shrinker_unit_alloc(info, NULL, nid)) {
>>>>> + kvfree(info);
>>>>> goto err;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info, info);
>>>>> }
>>>>> mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
>>>> Agreed, this is what I mentioned earlier as well.
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> I guess kvfree() should be called just after shrinker_unit_alloc()
>>>> fails but before calling into "goto err"
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> After discussion, it seems that v1 is acceptable.
>>> Hi, Muchun, do you have any other opinions?
>>
>> I insist on my opinion, not mixing two different approaches
>> to do release resources.
>
> It makes no sense.
>
> This kvfree() is specifically to handle the case when 'info' is allocated,
> but not yet assigned to ->shrinker_info. And 'err:' block handles all
> other error cases. Putting kvfree() in 'err:' section is double-free
> timebomb.

Please carefully read my previous reply. I don’t think there is any double-free. FYI, I pasted my previous suggested fix here. Thanks.

--- a/mm/shrinker.c
+++ b/mm/shrinker.c
@@ -88,13 +88,14 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
goto err;
info->map_nr_max = shrinker_nr_max;
if (shrinker_unit_alloc(info, NULL, nid))
- goto err;
+ goto free;
rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info, info);
}
mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);

return ret;
-
+free:
+ kvfree(info);
err:
mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
free_shrinker_info(memcg);

>
> --
> Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov