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Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 01:06:39PM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> When running locktorture module with the below commands with kmemleak enabled:
> 
> $ modprobe locktorture torture_type=rw_lock_irq
> $ rmmod locktorture
> 
> The below kmemleak got caught:
> 
> root@10:~# echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> [  323.197029] kmemleak: 2 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
> root@10:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0xffffffc07592d500 (size 128):
>   comm "modprobe", pid 368, jiffies 4294924118 (age 205.824s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c3 7b 02 00 00 00 00 00  .........{......
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d7 9b 02 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffff80081e5a88>] create_object+0x110/0x288
>     [<ffffff80086c6078>] kmemleak_alloc+0x58/0xa0
>     [<ffffff80081d5acc>] __kmalloc+0x234/0x318
>     [<ffffff80006fa130>] 0xffffff80006fa130
>     [<ffffff8008083ae4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x138
>     [<ffffff800817e28c>] do_init_module+0x68/0x1cc
>     [<ffffff800811c848>] load_module+0x1a68/0x22e0
>     [<ffffff800811d340>] SyS_finit_module+0xe0/0xf0
>     [<ffffff80080836f0>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28
>     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> unreferenced object 0xffffffc07592d480 (size 128):
>   comm "modprobe", pid 368, jiffies 4294924118 (age 205.824s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b 6f 01 00 00 00 00 00  ........;o......
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 23 6a 01 00 00 00 00 00  ........#j......
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffff80081e5a88>] create_object+0x110/0x288
>     [<ffffff80086c6078>] kmemleak_alloc+0x58/0xa0
>     [<ffffff80081d5acc>] __kmalloc+0x234/0x318
>     [<ffffff80006fa22c>] 0xffffff80006fa22c
>     [<ffffff8008083ae4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x138
>     [<ffffff800817e28c>] do_init_module+0x68/0x1cc
>     [<ffffff800811c848>] load_module+0x1a68/0x22e0
>     [<ffffff800811d340>] SyS_finit_module+0xe0/0xf0
>     [<ffffff80080836f0>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28
>     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> 
> It is because cxt.lwsa and cxt.lrsa don't get freed in module_exit, so free
> them in lock_torture_cleanup() and free writer_tasks if reader_tasks is
> failed at memory allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>

Good catch!  Queued for review and testing.

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
> index f8c5af5..d3de04b 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
> @@ -780,6 +780,10 @@ static void lock_torture_cleanup(void)
>  	else
>  		lock_torture_print_module_parms(cxt.cur_ops,
>  						"End of test: SUCCESS");
> +
> +	kfree(cxt.lwsa);
> +	kfree(cxt.lrsa);
> +
>  end:
>  	torture_cleanup_end();
>  }
> @@ -924,6 +928,8 @@ static int __init lock_torture_init(void)
>  				       GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (reader_tasks == NULL) {
>  			VERBOSE_TOROUT_ERRSTRING("reader_tasks: Out of memory");
> +			kfree(writer_tasks);
> +			writer_tasks = NULL;
>  			firsterr = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto unwind;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.0.2
> 

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[PATCH] locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> - 2016-11-10 22:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-12 19:10 +0100

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