This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
configfs: fix possible memory leak in configfs_create_dir()
to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
configfs-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-configfs_create.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 90c9bb39277f59257162786ef4ca7872dcb53c1a
Author: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 17 09:42:30 2022 +0800
configfs: fix possible memory leak in configfs_create_dir()
[ Upstream commit c65234b283a65cfbfc94619655e820a5e55199eb ]
kmemleak reported memory leaks in configfs_create_dir():
unreferenced object 0xffff888009f6af00 (size 192):
comm "modprobe", pid 3777, jiffies 4295537735 (age 233.784s)
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:3250 mm/slub.c:3256 mm/slub.c:3263 mm/slub.c:3273)
new_fragment (./include/linux/slab.h:600 fs/configfs/dir.c:163)
configfs_register_subsystem (fs/configfs/dir.c:1857)
basic_write (drivers/hwtracing/stm/p_basic.c:14) stm_p_basic
do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1296)
do_init_module (kernel/module/main.c:2455)
...
unreferenced object 0xffff888003ba7180 (size 96):
comm "modprobe", pid 3777, jiffies 4295537735 (age 233.784s)
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:3250 mm/slub.c:3256 mm/slub.c:3263 mm/slub.c:3273)
configfs_new_dirent (./include/linux/slab.h:723 fs/configfs/dir.c:194)
configfs_make_dirent (fs/configfs/dir.c:248)
configfs_create_dir (fs/configfs/dir.c:296)
configfs_attach_group.isra.28 (fs/configfs/dir.c:816 fs/configfs/dir.c:852)
configfs_register_subsystem (fs/configfs/dir.c:1881)
basic_write (drivers/hwtracing/stm/p_basic.c:14) stm_p_basic
do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1296)
do_init_module (kernel/module/main.c:2455)
...
This is because the refcount is not correct in configfs_make_dirent().
For normal stage, the refcount is changing as:
configfs_register_subsystem()
configfs_create_dir()
configfs_make_dirent()
configfs_new_dirent() # set s_count = 1
dentry->d_fsdata = configfs_get(sd); # s_count = 2
...
configfs_unregister_subsystem()
configfs_remove_dir()
remove_dir()
configfs_remove_dirent() # s_count = 1
dput() ...
*dentry_unlink_inode()*
configfs_d_iput() # s_count = 0, release
However, if we failed in configfs_create():
configfs_register_subsystem()
configfs_create_dir()
configfs_make_dirent() # s_count = 2
...
configfs_create() # fail
->out_remove:
configfs_remove_dirent(dentry)
configfs_put(sd) # s_count = 1
return PTR_ERR(inode);
There is no inode in the error path, so the configfs_d_iput() is lost
and makes sd and fragment memory leaked.
To fix this, when we failed in configfs_create(), manually call
configfs_put(sd) to keep the refcount correct.
Fixes: 7063fbf22611 ("[PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index d1f9d2632202..ec6519e1ca3b 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ static int configfs_create_dir(struct config_item *item, struct dentry *dentry,
return 0;
out_remove:
+ configfs_put(dentry->d_fsdata);
configfs_remove_dirent(dentry);
return PTR_ERR(inode);
}
@@ -382,6 +383,7 @@ int configfs_create_link(struct configfs_dirent *target, struct dentry *parent,
return 0;
out_remove:
+ configfs_put(dentry->d_fsdata);
configfs_remove_dirent(dentry);
return PTR_ERR(inode);
}
