This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ioctx_alloc(): fix vma (and file) leak on failure to the 3.14-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: ioctx_alloc-fix-vma-and-file-leak-on-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From deeb8525f9bcea60f5e86521880c1161de7a5829 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 17:57:44 -0400 Subject: ioctx_alloc(): fix vma (and file) leak on failure From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit deeb8525f9bcea60f5e86521880c1161de7a5829 upstream. If we fail past the aio_setup_ring(), we need to destroy the mapping. We don't need to care about anybody having found ctx, or added requests to it, since the last failure exit is exactly the failure to make ctx visible to lookups. Reproducer (based on one by Joe Mario <jmario@xxxxxxxxxx>): void count(char *p) { char s[80]; printf("%s: ", p); fflush(stdout); sprintf(s, "/bin/cat /proc/%d/maps|/bin/fgrep -c '/[aio] (deleted)'", getpid()); system(s); } int main() { io_context_t *ctx; int created, limit, i, destroyed; FILE *f; count("before"); if ((f = fopen("/proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr", "r")) == NULL) perror("opening aio-max-nr"); else if (fscanf(f, "%d", &limit) != 1) fprintf(stderr, "can't parse aio-max-nr\n"); else if ((ctx = calloc(limit, sizeof(io_context_t))) == NULL) perror("allocating aio_context_t array"); else { for (i = 0, created = 0; i < limit; i++) { if (io_setup(1000, ctx + created) == 0) created++; } for (i = 0, destroyed = 0; i < created; i++) if (io_destroy(ctx[i]) == 0) destroyed++; printf("created %d, failed %d, destroyed %d\n", created, limit - created, destroyed); count("after"); } } Found-by: Joe Mario <jmario@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsign err_cleanup: aio_nr_sub(ctx->max_reqs); err_ctx: + atomic_set(&ctx->dead, 1); + if (ctx->mmap_size) + vm_munmap(ctx->mmap_base, ctx->mmap_size); aio_free_ring(ctx); err: mutex_unlock(&ctx->ring_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/ioctx_alloc-fix-vma-and-file-leak-on-failure.patch queue-3.14/ocfs2-_really_-sync-the-right-range.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html