[PATCH 4.9 024/108] kernel/ucount.c: mark user_header with kmemleak_ignore()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-15T17:58:47Z

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit ed5bd7dc88edf4a4a9c67130742b1b59aa017a5f ]

The user_header gets caught by kmemleak with the following splat as
missing a free:

unreferenced object 0xffff99667a733d80 (size 96):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294892317 (age 62191.468s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
a0 b6 92 b4 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ................
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
__kmalloc+0x144/0x260
__register_sysctl_table+0x54/0x5e0
register_sysctl+0x1b/0x20
user_namespace_sysctl_init+0x17/0x34
do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1a0
kernel_init_freeable+0x173/0x200
kernel_init+0xe/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40

The BUG_ON()s are intended to crash so no need to clean up after
ourselves on error there. This is also a kernel/ subsys_init() we don't
need a respective exit call here as this is never modular, so just white
list it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203211404.31458-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/ucount.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/ucount.c
+++ b/kernel/ucount.c
@@ -231,11 +231,10 @@ static __init int user_namespace_sysctl_
* properly.
*/
user_header = register_sysctl("user", empty);
+ kmemleak_ignore(user_header);
BUG_ON(!user_header);
BUG_ON(!setup_userns_sysctls(&init_user_ns));
#endif
return 0;
}
subsys_initcall(user_namespace_sysctl_init);
-
-