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authorVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>2018-03-28 16:01:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-03-28 13:42:05 -1000
commit914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 (patch)
treeb82ce8d72d056642a749d72c866be4936cf059cf /mm
parentb213b54fbf9d282dc545252313d727f3972be8e0 (diff)
downloadlinux-914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700.tar.bz2
mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free
A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object->pointer, likely due to the following race. TASK A TASK B TASK C kmemleak_write (with "scan" and NOT "scan=on") kmemleak_scan() create_object kmem_cache_alloc fails kmemleak_disable kmemleak_do_cleanup kmemleak_free_enabled = 0 kfree kmemleak_free bails out (kmemleak_free_enabled is 0) slub frees object->pointer update_checksum crash - object->pointer freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write. So add a wait for kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it fix the comment on stop_scan_thread. [vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index e83987c55a08..46c2290a08f1 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1657,8 +1657,7 @@ static void start_scan_thread(void)
}
/*
- * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread. This function must be called
- * with the scan_mutex held.
+ * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread.
*/
static void stop_scan_thread(void)
{
@@ -1921,12 +1920,15 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
{
stop_scan_thread();
+ mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
/*
- * Once the scan thread has stopped, it is safe to no longer track
- * object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and the memory
- * accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop() function.
+ * Once it is made sure that kmemleak_scan has stopped, it is safe to no
+ * longer track object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and
+ * the memory accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop()
+ * function.
*/
kmemleak_free_enabled = 0;
+ mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
if (!kmemleak_found_leaks)
__kmemleak_do_cleanup();