Re: [PATCH 1/1] seccomp: release seccomp after killing terminate clone/fork

Re: [PATCH 1/1] seccomp: release seccomp after killing terminate clone/fork

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:34:21 +0800 Calvin Liao <calvin.liao@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "calvin.liao" <calvin.liao@mediatek.com>
> 
> Add to release seccomp after killing terminate clone/fork to avoid
> memory leak when enabling CONFIG_SECCOMP.
> 

Help us out here - where was this filter allocated?  Please describe
the code flow which led to this leak.  Rather than simply saying "there
is a leak".

> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1698,6 +1698,13 @@ static void copy_seccomp(struct task_struct *p)
>  #endif
>  }
>  
> +static void release_seccomp(struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECCOMP
> +	seccomp_filter_release(p);
> +#endif

ifdefs aren't needed?

> +}
> +
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_tid_address, int __user *, tidptr)
>  {
>  	current->clear_child_tid = tidptr;
> @@ -2405,6 +2412,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
>  	return p;
>  
>  bad_fork_cancel_cgroup:
> +	release_seccomp(p);

Why not simply call seccomp_filter_release() here, without ifdefs?

>  	sched_core_free(p);
>  	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
>  	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);