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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: JD <jdtxs00@gmail.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Followup: Kernel memory leak on 4.11+ & 5.3.x with IPsec
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:28:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191111062832.GP13225@gauss3.secunet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5d26eeb-02b5-20f4-14f5-e56721c97eb8@gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 12:25:37PM -0600, JD wrote:
> 
> Hello Steffen,
> 
> I left the stress test running over the weekend and everything still looks
> great. Your patch definitely resolves the leak.

I've just applied the patch below to the IPsec tree.

Thanks again for reporting and testing!

Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: Fix memleak on xfrm state destroy

We leak the page that we use to create skb page fragments
when destroying the xfrm_state. Fix this by dropping a
page reference if a page was assigned to the xfrm_state.

Fixes: cac2661c53f3 ("esp4: Avoid skb_cow_data whenever possible")
Reported-by: JD <jdtxs00@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index c6f3c4a1bd99..f3423562d933 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ static void ___xfrm_state_destroy(struct xfrm_state *x)
 		x->type->destructor(x);
 		xfrm_put_type(x->type);
 	}
+	if (x->xfrag.page)
+		put_page(x->xfrag.page);
 	xfrm_dev_state_free(x);
 	security_xfrm_state_free(x);
 	xfrm_state_free(x);
-- 
2.17.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-11  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAMnf+Pg4BLVKAGsr9iuF1uH-GMOiyb8OW0nKQSEKmjJvXj+t1g@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-01  7:53 ` Followup: Kernel memory leak on 4.11+ & 5.3.x with IPsec Steffen Klassert
2019-11-01 21:31   ` JD
2019-11-04 18:25   ` JD
2019-11-05  9:54     ` Steffen Klassert
2019-11-11  6:28     ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2019-12-02 18:10       ` JD
2019-12-02 18:35         ` Greg KH
2019-12-02 19:03           ` JD
2019-10-30 20:47 JD

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