Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb resv map memory leak for placeholder entries

[Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>]

On 12/01/2015 06:52 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Dmitry Vyukov reported the following memory leak
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff88002eaafd88 (size 32):
>   comm "a.out", pid 5063, jiffies 4295774645 (age 15.810s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff 28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff  (.Nc....(.Nc....
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<     inline     >] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:458
>     [<ffffffff815efa64>] region_chg+0x2d4/0x6b0 mm/hugetlb.c:398
>     [<ffffffff815f0c63>] __vma_reservation_common+0x2c3/0x390 mm/hugetlb.c:1791
>     [<     inline     >] vma_needs_reservation mm/hugetlb.c:1813
>     [<ffffffff815f658e>] alloc_huge_page+0x19e/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:1845
>     [<     inline     >] hugetlb_no_page mm/hugetlb.c:3543
>     [<ffffffff815fc561>] hugetlb_fault+0x7a1/0x1250 mm/hugetlb.c:3717
>     [<ffffffff815fd349>] follow_hugetlb_page+0x339/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:3880
>     [<ffffffff815a2bb2>] __get_user_pages+0x542/0xf30 mm/gup.c:497
>     [<ffffffff815a400e>] populate_vma_page_range+0xde/0x110 mm/gup.c:919
>     [<ffffffff815a4207>] __mm_populate+0x1c7/0x310 mm/gup.c:969
>     [<ffffffff815b74f1>] do_mlock+0x291/0x360 mm/mlock.c:637
>     [<     inline     >] SYSC_mlock2 mm/mlock.c:658
>     [<ffffffff815b7a4b>] SyS_mlock2+0x4b/0x70 mm/mlock.c:648
> 
> Dmitry identified a potential memory leak in the routine region_chg,
> where a region descriptor is not free'ed on an error path.
> 
> However, the root cause for the above memory leak resides in region_del.
> In this specific case, a "placeholder" entry is created in region_chg.  The
> associated page allocation fails, and the placeholder entry is left in the
> reserve map.  This is "by design" as the entry should be deleted when the
> map is released.  The bug is in the region_del routine which is used to
> delete entries within a specific range (and when the map is released).
> region_del did not handle the case where a placeholder entry exactly matched
> the start of the range range to be deleted.  In this case, the entry would
> not be deleted and leaked.  The fix is to take these special placeholder
> entries into account in region_del.
> 
> The region_chg error path leak is also fixed.
> 
> Fixes: feba16e25a57 ("add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.3]
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 1101ccd94..ba07014 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -372,8 +372,10 @@ retry_locked:
>  		spin_unlock(&resv->lock);
>  
>  		trg = kmalloc(sizeof(*trg), GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!trg)
> +		if (!trg) {
> +			kfree(nrg);
>  			return -ENOMEM;
> +		}
>  
>  		spin_lock(&resv->lock);
>  		list_add(&trg->link, &resv->region_cache);
> @@ -483,7 +485,13 @@ static long region_del(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t)
>  retry:
>  	spin_lock(&resv->lock);
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(rg, trg, head, link) {
> -		if (rg->to <= f)
> +		/*
> +		 * file_region ranges are normally of the form [from, to).
> +		 * However, there may be a "placeholder" entry in the map
> +		 * which is of the form (from, to) with from == to.  Check
> +		 * for placeholder entries as well.
> +		 */
> +		if (rg->to <= f && rg->to != rg->from)

That check is not sufficient/correct.  It will allow placeholder entries
BEFORE the range to be deleted to fall through.  This would result in
modifications of those placeholder entries to create bogus/bad entries of
the form [from, to) where from > to.

A V2 of the patch with a more specific check will be sent shortly.
-- 
Mike Kravetz

>  			continue;
>  		if (rg->from >= t)
>  			break;
> 

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