A memory leak is found in cgroup1_parse_param() when multiple source parameters overwrite fc->source in the fs_context struct without free. unreferenced object 0xffff888100d930e0 (size 16): comm "mount", pid 520, jiffies 4303326831 (age 152.783s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 74 65 73 74 6c 65 61 6b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 testleak........ backtrace: [<000000003e5023ec>] kmemdup_nul+0x2d/0xa0 [<00000000377dbdaa>] vfs_parse_fs_string+0xc0/0x150 [<00000000cb2b4882>] generic_parse_monolithic+0x15a/0x1d0 [<000000000f750198>] path_mount+0xee1/0x1820 [<0000000004756de2>] do_mount+0xea/0x100 [<0000000094cafb0a>] __x64_sys_mount+0x14b/0x1f0 Fix this bug by permitting a single source parameter and rejecting with an error all subsequent ones. Fixes: 8d2451f4994f ("cgroup1: switch to option-by-option parsing") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v1->v2: fix compile problems caused by superfluous LF in err message. kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c index 191c329e4..32596fdbc 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c @@ -908,6 +908,8 @@ int cgroup1_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param) opt = fs_parse(fc, cgroup1_fs_parameters, param, &result); if (opt == -ENOPARAM) { if (strcmp(param->key, "source") == 0) { + if (fc->source) + return invalf(fc, "Multiple sources not supported"); fc->source = param->string; param->string = NULL; return 0; -- 2.23.0