INFO: memory leak in gpio device in 6.2-rc6

Mirsad Goran Todorovac
2023-01-31T09:37:35Z

Hi all,

I came across this memory leak apparently in the GPIO device driver.
It is still present in 6.2-rc6 release candidate kernel (just ran kselftest).

This is a vanilla Torvalds tree kernel with MGLRU and KMEMLEAK (obviously)
enabled.

If you think this bug is significant, I can attempt the bug bisect in the
environment that triggered it (Lenovo LENOVO_MT_10TX_BU_Lenovo_FM_V530S-07ICB)
with BIOS M22KT49A from 11/10/2022 and AlmaLinux 8.7.

Here is the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak output:

unreferenced object 0xffff9e67ad71f160 (size 32):
comm "gpio-sim.sh", pid 208926, jiffies 4372229685 (age 2101.564s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
67 70 69 6f 2d 73 69 6d 2e 30 2d 6e 6f 64 65 30 gpio-sim.0-node0
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000098bf3d1b>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x91/0x320
[<00000000da3205c5>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1bf/0x2b0
[<00000000aa51a58a>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x55/0x140
[<00000000bd682ecc>] kvasprintf+0x6b/0xd0
[<00000000a3431d55>] kasprintf+0x4e/0x70
[<00000000f52d2629>] gpio_sim_device_config_live_store+0x401/0x59d [gpio_sim]
[<00000000673fc6df>] configfs_write_iter+0xcc/0x130
[<000000001d5d0829>] vfs_write+0x2b4/0x3d0
[<00000000d2336251>] ksys_write+0x61/0xe0
[<00000000f7015bb1>] __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
[<000000008ac743d2>] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80
[<000000004d7b7d50>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[root@pc-mtodorov marvin]#

Regards,
Mirsad

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Mirsad Todorovac
System engineer
Faculty of Graphic Arts | Academy of Fine Arts
University of Zagreb
Republic of Croatia, the European Union