Re: [PATCH 04/52] drm: Set final_kfree in drm_dev_alloc

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:41:07PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 2:39 PM Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Thank you for the patch.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:20:34AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > I also did a full review of all callers, and only the xen driver
> > > forgot to call drm_dev_put in the failure path. Fix that up too.
> >
> > I'd split this patch in two then, with the Xen first coming first, and
> > with an explanation in the commit message of the second patch about why
> > you call drmm_add_final_kfree() in drm_dev_alloc().

Forgot to reply to this I think.

Breaks biscting, so no can't split. It's just a leak, but this entire
series is full of these "would break bisecting because it would introduce
a subtle leak or use-after-free". Still isn't as simple as it looks
unfortunately :-/

> >
> > > v2: I noticed that xen has a drm_driver.release hook, and uses
> > > drm_dev_alloc(). We need to remove the kfree from
> > > xen_drm_drv_release().
> > >
> > > bochs also has a release hook, but leaked the drm_device ever since
> > >
> > > commit 0a6659bdc5e8221da99eebb176fd9591435e38de
> > > Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Tue Dec 17 18:04:46 2013 +0100
> > >
> > >     drm/bochs: new driver
> > >
> > > This patch here fixes that leak.
> > >
> > > Same for virtio, started leaking with
> > >
> > > commit b1df3a2b24a917f8853d43fe9683c0e360d2c33a
> > > Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Tue Feb 11 14:58:04 2020 +0100
> > >
> > >     drm/virtio: add drm_driver.release callback.
> > >
> > > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c           | 3 +++
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c | 2 +-
> > >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> > > index 3e5627d6eba6..9e62e28bbc62 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> > > @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
> > >  #include <drm/drm_color_mgmt.h>
> > >  #include <drm/drm_drv.h>
> > >  #include <drm/drm_file.h>
> > > +#include <drm/drm_managed.h>
> > >  #include <drm/drm_mode_object.h>
> > >  #include <drm/drm_print.h>
> > >
> > > @@ -819,6 +820,8 @@ struct drm_device *drm_dev_alloc(struct drm_driver *driver,
> > >               return ERR_PTR(ret);
> > >       }
> > >
> > > +     drmm_add_final_kfree(dev, dev);
> >
> > drmm_add_final_kfree() can only be called once. Does this mean that a
> > driver using drm_dev_alloc() isn't allowed to use drmm_add_final_kfree()
> > to tract its own private structure ?
> 
> There is only _one_ final kfree() for the structure containing
> drm_device. Anything else you can just allocate with drmm_kzalloc, and
> it will be cleaned up before. The chicken/egg doesn't just exist
> around init time with drm_device, but also at cleanup time - the list
> of cleanup actions is stored in drm_device, plus the logging macros
> also need a drm_device. Which means we really, really, really need to
> make sure that the drm_device is the very last thing that goes away.
> Hence this special case. I was semi-tempted to drill through the slab
> debug layer and add a check that the drm_device pointer in the
> final_kfree is actually within the slab allocation block. Just to make
> sure people use this correctly, and not just as a "hey here's a random
> kmalloc block I want you to release, thxokbye". Because doing that
> would cause a few use-after-free (or a leak).

I've added those checks now.
-Daniel


> -Daniel
> 
> >
> > > +
> > >       return dev;
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dev_alloc);
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c
> > > index 4be49c1aef51..d22b5da38935 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c
> > > @@ -461,7 +461,6 @@ static void xen_drm_drv_release(struct drm_device *dev)
> > >       drm_mode_config_cleanup(dev);
> > >
> > >       drm_dev_fini(dev);
> > > -     kfree(dev);
> > >
> > >       if (front_info->cfg.be_alloc)
> > >               xenbus_switch_state(front_info->xb_dev,
> > > @@ -561,6 +560,7 @@ static int xen_drm_drv_init(struct xen_drm_front_info *front_info)
> > >  fail_modeset:
> > >       drm_kms_helper_poll_fini(drm_dev);
> > >       drm_mode_config_cleanup(drm_dev);
> > > +     drm_dev_put(drm_dev);
> > >  fail:
> > >       kfree(drm_info);
> > >       return ret;
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Laurent Pinchart
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

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