From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pipe: Fix memory leaks in create_pipe_files()
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:16:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001131659.GE3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001125055.5042-1-cai@redhat.com>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:50:55AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> Calling pipe2() with O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE could results in memory leaks
> in an error path or CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE=n. Plug them.
[snip the copy of bug report]
No objections on the patch itself, but commit message is just about
unreadable. How about something along the lines of the following?
=======================
Calling pipe2() with O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE could results in memory
leaks unless watch_queue_init() is successful.
In case of watch_queue_init() failure in pipe2() we are left
with inode and pipe_inode_info instances that need to be freed. That
failure exit has been introduced in commit c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add
general notification queue support") and its handling should've been
identical to nearby treatment of alloc_file_pseudo() failures - it
is dealing with the same situation. As it is, the mainline kernel
leaks in that case.
Another problem is that CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE and !CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
cases are treated differently (and the former leaks just pipe_inode_info,
the latter - both pipe_inode_info and inode).
Fixed by providing a dummy wath_queue_init() in !CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
case and by having failures of wath_queue_init() handled the same way
we handle alloc_file_pseudo() ones.
Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
=======================
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 12:50 [PATCH v3] pipe: Fix memory leaks in create_pipe_files() Qian Cai
2020-10-01 13:16 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-10-01 13:37 ` Qian Cai
2020-10-01 13:43 ` Al Viro
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