The patch titled Subject: mm: kmemleak: fix crashing during kmemleak disabling has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-kmemleak-fix-crashing-during-kmemleak-disabling.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm: kmemleak: fix crashing during kmemleak disabling With the current implementation, if kmemleak is disabled because of an error condition (e.g. fails to allocate metadata), alloc/free calls are no longer tracked. Usually this is not a problem since the kmemleak metadata is being removed via kmemleak_do_cleanup(). However, if the scanning thread is running at the time of disabling, kmemleak would no longer notice a potential vfree() call and the freed/unmapped object may still be accessed, causing a fault. This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed. The kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is only called during boot before the scanning thread started. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan <vigneshr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan <vigneshr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kmemleak.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/kmemleak.c~mm-kmemleak-fix-crashing-during-kmemleak-disabling mm/kmemleak.c --- a/mm/kmemleak.c~mm-kmemleak-fix-crashing-during-kmemleak-disabling +++ a/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache *scan_area_cach /* set if tracing memory operations is enabled */ static int kmemleak_enabled; +/* same as above but only for the kmemleak_free() callback */ +static int kmemleak_free_enabled; /* set in the late_initcall if there were no errors */ static int kmemleak_initialized; /* enables or disables early logging of the memory operations */ @@ -942,7 +944,7 @@ void __ref kmemleak_free(const void *ptr { pr_debug("%s(0x%p)\n", __func__, ptr); - if (kmemleak_enabled && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr)) + if (kmemleak_free_enabled && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr)) delete_object_full((unsigned long)ptr); else if (kmemleak_early_log) log_early(KMEMLEAK_FREE, ptr, 0, 0); @@ -982,7 +984,7 @@ void __ref kmemleak_free_percpu(const vo pr_debug("%s(0x%p)\n", __func__, ptr); - if (kmemleak_enabled && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr)) + if (kmemleak_free_enabled && ptr && !IS_ERR(ptr)) for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) delete_object_full((unsigned long)per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu)); @@ -1750,6 +1752,12 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct w mutex_lock(&scan_mutex); stop_scan_thread(); + /* + * Once the scan thread has stopped, it is safe to no longer track + * object freeing. + */ + kmemleak_free_enabled = 0; + if (!kmemleak_found_leaks) __kmemleak_do_cleanup(); else @@ -1776,6 +1784,8 @@ static void kmemleak_disable(void) /* check whether it is too early for a kernel thread */ if (kmemleak_initialized) schedule_work(&cleanup_work); + else + kmemleak_free_enabled = 0; pr_info("Kernel memory leak detector disabled\n"); } @@ -1840,8 +1850,10 @@ void __init kmemleak_init(void) if (kmemleak_error) { local_irq_restore(flags); return; - } else + } else { kmemleak_enabled = 1; + kmemleak_free_enabled = 1; + } local_irq_restore(flags); /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb-reduce-arch-dependent-code-about-huge_pmd_unshare.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html