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From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:SCHEDULER)
Cc: rrendec@redhat.com, Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/deadline: fix task_struct reference leak
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:19:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240618201940.94955-1-wander@redhat.com> (raw)

During the execution of the following stress test with linux-rt:

stress-ng --cyclic 30 --timeout 30 --minimize --quiet

kmemleak frequently reported a memory leak concerning the task_struct:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881305b8000 (size 16136):
  comm "stress-ng", pid 614, jiffies 4294883961 (age 286.412s)
  object hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    02 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .@..............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  debug hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    53 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  S...............
  backtrace:
    [<00000000046b6790>] dup_task_struct+0x30/0x540
    [<00000000c5ca0f0b>] copy_process+0x3d9/0x50e0
    [<00000000ced59777>] kernel_clone+0xb0/0x770
    [<00000000a50befdc>] __do_sys_clone+0xb6/0xf0
    [<000000001dbf2008>] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xf0
    [<00000000552900ff>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

The issue occurs in start_dl_timer(), which increments the task_struct
reference count and sets a timer. The timer callback, dl_task_timer,
is supposed to decrement the reference count upon expiration. However,
if enqueue_task_dl() is called before the timer expires and cancels it,
the reference count is not decremented, leading to the leak.

This patch fixes the reference leak by ensuring the task_struct
reference count is properly decremented when the timer is canceled.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index c75d1307d86d..5953f89bfa96 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1805,7 +1805,9 @@ static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 			 * problem if it fires concurrently: boosted threads
 			 * are ignored in dl_task_timer().
 			 */
-			hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&p->dl.dl_timer);
+			if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&p->dl.dl_timer) == 1 &&
+			    !dl_server(&p->dl))
+				put_task_struct(p);
 			p->dl.dl_throttled = 0;
 		}
 	} else if (!dl_prio(p->normal_prio)) {
-- 
2.45.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-06-18 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-18 20:19 Wander Lairson Costa [this message]
2024-06-20  8:49 ` [PATCH] sched/deadline: fix task_struct reference leak Juri Lelli

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