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| author | Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> | 2018-03-29 01:01:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-03-29 01:42:05 +0200 |
| commit | 914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 (patch) | |
| tree | b82ce8d72d056642a749d72c866be4936cf059cf /mm/kmemleak.c | |
| parent | mm/memcontrol.c: fix parameter description mismatch (diff) | |
| download | linux-914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700.tar.xz linux-914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700.zip | |
mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free
A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object->pointer,
likely due to the following race.
TASK A TASK B TASK C
kmemleak_write
(with "scan" and
NOT "scan=on")
kmemleak_scan()
create_object
kmem_cache_alloc fails
kmemleak_disable
kmemleak_do_cleanup
kmemleak_free_enabled = 0
kfree
kmemleak_free bails out
(kmemleak_free_enabled is 0)
slub frees object->pointer
update_checksum
crash - object->pointer
freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)
kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for
direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write. So add a wait for
kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it
fix the comment on stop_scan_thread.
[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/kmemleak.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/kmemleak.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index e83987c55a08..46c2290a08f1 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -1657,8 +1657,7 @@ static void start_scan_thread(void) } /* - * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread. This function must be called - * with the scan_mutex held. + * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread. */ static void stop_scan_thread(void) { @@ -1921,12 +1920,15 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work) { stop_scan_thread(); + mutex_lock(&scan_mutex); /* - * Once the scan thread has stopped, it is safe to no longer track - * object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and the memory - * accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop() function. + * Once it is made sure that kmemleak_scan has stopped, it is safe to no + * longer track object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and + * the memory accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop() + * function. */ kmemleak_free_enabled = 0; + mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex); if (!kmemleak_found_leaks) __kmemleak_do_cleanup(); |