The patch titled Subject: userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork fctx->new memleak has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-fctx-new-memleak.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-fctx-new-memleak.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-fctx-new-memleak.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork fctx->new memleak We have a memleak in the ->new ctx if the uffd of the parent is closed before the fork event is read, nothing frees the new context. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302173738.18994-2-aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/userfaultfd.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-fctx-new-memleak fs/userfaultfd.c --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-fctx-new-memleak +++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -549,6 +549,15 @@ static void userfaultfd_event_wait_compl if (ACCESS_ONCE(ctx->released) || fatal_signal_pending(current)) { __remove_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &ewq->wq); + if (ewq->msg.event == UFFD_EVENT_FORK) { + struct userfaultfd_ctx *new; + + new = (struct userfaultfd_ctx *) + (unsigned long) + ewq->msg.arg.reserved.reserved1; + + userfaultfd_ctx_put(new); + } break; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-fctx-new-memleak.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