Re: memory leak in inotify_update_watch

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On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 05:24:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 06-07-20 08:42:24, syzbot wrote:
> > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > 
> > HEAD commit:    7cc2a8ea Merge tag 'block-5.8-2020-07-01' of git://git.ker..
> > git tree:       upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17644c05100000
> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=5ee23b9caef4e07a
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dec34b033b3479b9ef13
> > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507
> > syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1478a67b100000
> > 
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+dec34b033b3479b9ef13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > BUG: memory leak
> > unreferenced object 0xffff888115db8480 (size 576):
> >   comm "systemd-udevd", pid 11037, jiffies 4295104591 (age 56.960s)
> >   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >     00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 fd e8 15 81 88 ff ff  ................
> >     a0 02 dd 20 81 88 ff ff b0 81 d0 09 81 88 ff ff  ... ............
> >   backtrace:
> >     [<00000000288c0066>] radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.0+0xc1/0x140 lib/radix-tree.c:252
> >     [<00000000f80ba6a7>] idr_get_free+0x231/0x3b0 lib/radix-tree.c:1505
> >     [<00000000ec9ab938>] idr_alloc_u32+0x91/0x120 lib/idr.c:46
> >     [<00000000aea98d29>] idr_alloc_cyclic+0x84/0x110 lib/idr.c:125
> >     [<00000000dbad44a4>] inotify_add_to_idr fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:365 [inline]
> >     [<00000000dbad44a4>] inotify_new_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:578 [inline]
> >     [<00000000dbad44a4>] inotify_update_watch+0x1af/0x2d0 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:617
> >     [<00000000e141890d>] __do_sys_inotify_add_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:755 [inline]
> >     [<00000000e141890d>] __se_sys_inotify_add_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:698 [inline]
> >     [<00000000e141890d>] __x64_sys_inotify_add_watch+0x12f/0x180 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:698
> >     [<00000000d872d7cc>] do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xe0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:359
> >     [<000000005c62d8da>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> 
> I've been looking into this for a while and I don't think this is related
> to inotify at all. Firstly the reproducer looks totally benign:
> 
> prlimit64(0x0, 0xe, &(0x7f0000000280)={0x9, 0x8d}, 0x0)
> sched_setattr(0x0, &(0x7f00000000c0)={0x38, 0x2, 0x0, 0x0, 0x9}, 0x0)
> vmsplice(0xffffffffffffffff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
> perf_event_open(0x0, 0x0, 0xffffffffffffffff, 0xffffffffffffffff, 0x0)
> clone(0x20000103, 0x0, 0xfffffffffffffffe, 0x0, 0xffffffffffffffff)
> syz_mount_image$vfat(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
> 
> So we seem to set SCHED_RR class and prio 9 to itself, the rest of syscalls
> seem to be invalid and should fail. Secondly, the kernel log shows that we
> hit OOM killer frequently and after one of these kills, many leaked objects
> (among them this radix tree node from inotify idr) are reported. I'm not
> sure if it could be the leak detector getting confused (e.g. because it got
> ENOMEM at some point) or something else... Catalin, any idea?

Just wondering, if this leak is reproducible, could we have some
condition where inotify_remove_from_idr() is not called in case of a
forced exit triggered by the OOM kill? Also, can the leak be reproduced
without the OOM?

-- 
Catalin



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