Revision f6ba488073fe8159851fe398cc3c5ee383bb4c7a authored by Vladimir Davydov on 18 August 2017, 22:16:08 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 18 August 2017, 22:32:01 UTC
To avoid a possible deadlock, sysfs_slab_remove() schedules an
asynchronous work to delete sysfs entries corresponding to the kmem
cache.  To ensure the cache isn't freed before the work function is
called, it takes a reference to the cache kobject.  The reference is
supposed to be released by the work function.

However, the work function (sysfs_slab_remove_workfn()) does nothing in
case the cache sysfs entry has already been deleted, leaking the kobject
and the corresponding cache.

This may happen on a per memcg cache destruction, because sysfs entries
of a per memcg cache are deleted on memcg offline if the cache is empty
(see __kmemcg_cache_deactivate()).

The kmemleak report looks like this:

  unreferenced object 0xffff9f798a79f540 (size 32):
    comm "kworker/1:4", pid 15416, jiffies 4307432429 (age 28687.554s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      6b 6d 61 6c 6c 6f 63 2d 31 36 28 31 35 39 39 3a  kmalloc-16(1599:
      6e 65 77 72 6f 6f 74 29 00 23 6b c0 ff ff ff ff  newroot).#k.....
    backtrace:
       kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
       __kmalloc_track_caller+0x148/0x2c0
       kvasprintf+0x66/0xd0
       kasprintf+0x49/0x70
       memcg_create_kmem_cache+0xe6/0x160
       memcg_kmem_cache_create_func+0x20/0x110
       process_one_work+0x205/0x5d0
       worker_thread+0x4e/0x3a0
       kthread+0x109/0x140
       ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40
  unreferenced object 0xffff9f79b6136840 (size 416):
    comm "kworker/1:4", pid 15416, jiffies 4307432429 (age 28687.573s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      40 fb 80 c2 3e 33 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00  @...>3.....@....
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................
    backtrace:
       kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
       kmem_cache_alloc+0x128/0x280
       create_cache+0x3b/0x1e0
       memcg_create_kmem_cache+0x118/0x160
       memcg_kmem_cache_create_func+0x20/0x110
       process_one_work+0x205/0x5d0
       worker_thread+0x4e/0x3a0
       kthread+0x109/0x140
       ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40

Fix the leak by adding the missing call to kobject_put() to
sysfs_slab_remove_workfn().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170812181134.25027-1-vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Fixes: 3b7b314053d02 ("slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.12.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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dump_stack.c
/*
 * Provide a default dump_stack() function for architectures
 * which don't implement their own.
 */

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>

static void __dump_stack(void)
{
	dump_stack_print_info(KERN_DEFAULT);
	show_stack(NULL, NULL);
}

/**
 * dump_stack - dump the current task information and its stack trace
 *
 * Architectures can override this implementation by implementing its own.
 */
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static atomic_t dump_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);

asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
{
	unsigned long flags;
	int was_locked;
	int old;
	int cpu;

	/*
	 * Permit this cpu to perform nested stack dumps while serialising
	 * against other CPUs
	 */
retry:
	local_irq_save(flags);
	cpu = smp_processor_id();
	old = atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, cpu);
	if (old == -1) {
		was_locked = 0;
	} else if (old == cpu) {
		was_locked = 1;
	} else {
		local_irq_restore(flags);
		cpu_relax();
		goto retry;
	}

	__dump_stack();

	if (!was_locked)
		atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1);

	local_irq_restore(flags);
}
#else
asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
{
	__dump_stack();
}
#endif
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_stack);
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