Re: [V2][PATCH] cgroup: fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline

Quanyang Wang
2021-10-22T11:55:50Z

Hi Roman,

On 10/22/21 9:30 AM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 03:56:23PM +0800, quanyang.wang@windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@windriver.com>
>>
>> When enabling CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF, kmemleak can be observed by running
>> the command as below:
>>
>> $mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup cgroup/
>> $umount cgroup/
>>
>> unreferenced object 0xc3585c40 (size 64):
>> comm "mount", pid 425, jiffies 4294959825 (age 31.990s)
>> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>> 01 00 00 80 84 8c 28 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......(.........
>> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6c 43 a0 c3 00 00 00 00 ........lC......
>> backtrace:
>> [<e95a2f9e>] cgroup_bpf_inherit+0x44/0x24c
>> [<1f03679c>] cgroup_setup_root+0x174/0x37c
>> [<ed4b0ac5>] cgroup1_get_tree+0x2c0/0x4a0
>> [<f85b12fd>] vfs_get_tree+0x24/0x108
>> [<f55aec5c>] path_mount+0x384/0x988
>> [<e2d5e9cd>] do_mount+0x64/0x9c
>> [<208c9cfe>] sys_mount+0xfc/0x1f4
>> [<06dd06e0>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48
>> [<a8308cb3>] 0xbeb4daa8
>>
>> This is because that since the commit 2b0d3d3e4fcf ("percpu_ref: reduce
>> memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path") root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data
>> is allocated by the function percpu_ref_init in cgroup_bpf_inherit which
>> is called by cgroup_setup_root when mounting, but not freed along with
>> root_cgrp when umounting. Adding cgroup_bpf_offline which calls
>> percpu_ref_kill to cgroup_kill_sb can free root_cgrp->bpf.refcnt.data in
>> umount path.
>>
>> This patch also fixes the commit 4bfc0bb2c60e ("bpf: decouple the lifetime
>> of cgroup_bpf from cgroup itself"). A cgroup_bpf_offline is needed to do a
>> cleanup that frees the resources which are allocated by cgroup_bpf_inherit
>> in cgroup_setup_root.
>>
>> And inside cgroup_bpf_offline, cgroup_get() is at the beginning and
>> cgroup_put is at the end of cgroup_bpf_release which is called by
>> cgroup_bpf_offline. So cgroup_bpf_offline can keep the balance of
>> cgroup's refcount.
>>
>> Fixes: 2b0d3d3e4fcf ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path")
>> Fixes: 4bfc0bb2c60e ("bpf: decouple the lifetime of cgroup_bpf from cgroup itself")
>> Signed-off-by: Quanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@windriver.com>
>> ---
>> V1 ---> V2:
>> 1. As per Daniel's suggestion, add description to commit msg about the
>> balance of cgroup's refcount in cgroup_bpf_offline.
>> 2. As per Michal's suggestion, add tag "Fixes: 4bfc0bb2c60e" and add
>> description about it.
>> 3. Fix indentation on the percpu_ref_is_dying line.
>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
>
> The fix looks correct, two fixes tag are fine too, if only it won't
> confuse scripts picking up patches for stable backports.
>
> In fact, it's a very cold path, which is arguably never hit in the real
> life. On cgroup v2 it's not an issue. I'm not sure we need a stable
> backport at all, only if it creates a noise for some automation tests.
>
> Quanyang, out of curiosity, how did you find it?
I ran ltp testsuite to find this.

./runltp -f controllers -s cgroup

Thanks,
Quanyang
>
> Anyway, thanks for catching and fixing it!
>
> Roman
>