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

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> On Oct 11, 2024, at 22:21, Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c
> index dc5d2a6fcfc4..e4b795ee6d2e 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;

Since we already use goto to do the cleanup for failure, I don't like
to mix two different ways to do the similar thing. I suggest adding
the kvfree (BTW, it could handle NULL argument) to the label of err.

Muchun,
Thanks.

> + 		}
> 		rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info, info);
> 	}
> 	mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 






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