Re: [Bug report] Memory leak in scmi_device_create

Cristian Marussi
2025-03-05T17:10:27Z

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:59:58AM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> Dear SYSTEM CONTROL & POWER/MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (SCPI/SCMI) Message
> Protocol drivers maintainers,
>
> I flashed a v6.13-rc3 kernel onto a Rock5B board and noticed the
> following output in my terminal:
>
> [ 687.694465] kmemleak: 4 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
>
> It seems that there is a memory leak for devices created with
> scmi_device_create.
>
`
Hi Alice,

thanks for this report.

> This was with a kernel running v6.13-rc3, but as far as I can tell, no
> relevant changes have landed since v6.13-rc3. My tree *does* include
> commit 295416091e44 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Fix slab-use-after-free in
> scmi_bus_notifier()"). I've only seen this kmemleak report once, so it's
> not happening consistently.
>
> See below for the full kmemleak report.
>
> Alice
>
> $ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0xffffff8106c86000 (size 2048):
> comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294893094
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 02 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 c0 01 bc 03 81 ff ff ff ................
> 60 67 ba 03 81 ff ff ff 18 60 c8 06 81 ff ff ff `g.......`......
> backtrace (crc feae9680):
> [<00000000197aa008>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0xa0
> [<0000000056fe02c9>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1e0/0x450
> [<00000000a8b3dfe1>] __scmi_device_create+0xb4/0x2b4
> [<000000008714917b>] scmi_device_create+0x40/0x194
> [<000000001818f3cf>] scmi_chan_setup+0x144/0x3b8
> [<00000000970bad38>] scmi_probe+0x584/0xa78
> [<000000002600d2fd>] platform_probe+0xbc/0xf0
> [<00000000f6f556b4>] really_probe+0x1b8/0x520
> [<00000000eed93d59>] __driver_probe_device+0xe0/0x1d8
> [<00000000d613b754>] driver_probe_device+0x6c/0x208
> [<00000000187a9170>] __driver_attach+0x168/0x328
> [<00000000e3ff1834>] bus_for_each_dev+0x14c/0x178
> [<00000000984a3176>] driver_attach+0x34/0x44
> [<00000000fc35bf2a>] bus_add_driver+0x1bc/0x358
> [<00000000747fce19>] driver_register+0xc0/0x1a0
> [<0000000081cb8754>] __platform_driver_register+0x40/0x50
> unreferenced object 0xffffff8103bc01c0 (size 32):

I could not reproduce on my setup, even though I run a system with
all the existent SCMI protocols (and related drivers) enabled (and
so a lot of device creations) and a downstream test driver that causes
even more SCMI devices to be created/destroyed at load/unload.

Coming down the path from scmi_chan_setup(), it seems something around
transport devices creation, but it is not obvious to me where the leak
could hide....

...any particular setup on your side ? ...using LKMs, loading/unloading,
any usage pattern that could help me reproduce ?

Thanks,
Cristian