Kmemleak tool detected a memory leak. ==================== unreferenced object 0xffff888126fcd6c0 (size 192): comm "syz-executor.1", pid 11934, jiffies 4294983026 (age 15.690s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 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: [<ffffffff81632c91>] kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:609 [inline] [<ffffffff81632c91>] kzalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:732 [inline] [<ffffffff81632c91>] create_io_worker+0x41/0x1e0 fs/io-wq.c:739 [<ffffffff8163311e>] io_wqe_create_worker fs/io-wq.c:267 [inline] [<ffffffff8163311e>] io_wqe_enqueue+0x1fe/0x330 fs/io-wq.c:866 [<ffffffff81620b64>] io_queue_async_work+0xc4/0x200 fs/io_uring.c:1473 [<ffffffff8162c59c>] __io_queue_sqe+0x34c/0x510 fs/io_uring.c:6933 [<ffffffff8162c7ab>] io_req_task_submit+0x4b/0xa0 fs/io_uring.c:2233 [<ffffffff8162cb48>] io_async_task_func+0x108/0x1c0 fs/io_uring.c:5462 [<ffffffff816259e3>] tctx_task_work+0x1b3/0x3a0 fs/io_uring.c:2158 [<ffffffff81269b43>] task_work_run+0x73/0xb0 kernel/task_work.c:164 [<ffffffff812dcdd1>] tracehook_notify_signal include/linux/tracehook.h:212 [inline] [<ffffffff812dcdd1>] handle_signal_work kernel/entry/common.c:146 [inline] [<ffffffff812dcdd1>] exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:172 [inline] [<ffffffff812dcdd1>] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x151/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:209 [<ffffffff843ff25d>] __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline] [<ffffffff843ff25d>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:302 [<ffffffff843fa4a2>] do_syscall_64+0x42/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86 [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae ==================== If io_should_retry_thread is false in create_io_worker() and io_queue_worker_create is false in io_workqueue_create(), free the worker. Fixes: 3146cba99aa2 ("io-wq: make worker creation resilient against signals") Reported-by: syzbot+65454c239241d3d647da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: * Add free worker if io_queue_worker_create is false in io_workqueue_create(); * Add kmemleak calltrace in commit message; fs/io-wq.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/io-wq.c b/fs/io-wq.c index d80e4a735677..c24f79cf2b97 100644 --- a/fs/io-wq.c +++ b/fs/io-wq.c @@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ static void io_workqueue_create(struct work_struct *work) if (!io_queue_worker_create(worker, acct, create_worker_cont)) { clear_bit_unlock(0, &worker->create_state); io_worker_release(worker); + kfree(worker); } } @@ -759,6 +760,7 @@ static bool create_io_worker(struct io_wq *wq, struct io_wqe *wqe, int index) if (!IS_ERR(tsk)) { io_init_new_worker(wqe, worker, tsk); } else if (!io_should_retry_thread(PTR_ERR(tsk))) { + kfree(worker); goto fail; } else { INIT_WORK(&worker->work, io_workqueue_create); -- 2.17.1