From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: syzbot <syzbot+7e2e50c8adfccd2e5041@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: coreteam@netfilter.org, davem@davemloft.net, fw@strlen.de,
horms@verge.net.au, ja@ssi.bg, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
pablo@netfilter.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
wensong@linux-vs.org
Subject: Re: memory leak in start_sync_thread
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:06:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190611010612.GD220379@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000000000006d7e520589f6d3a9@google.com>
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:28:05AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> syzbot found the following crash on:
>
> HEAD commit: cd6c84d8 Linux 5.2-rc2
> git tree: upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=132bd44aa00000
> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=64479170dcaf0e11
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7e2e50c8adfccd2e5041
> compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=114b1354a00000
> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=14b7ad26a00000
>
> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> Reported-by: syzbot+7e2e50c8adfccd2e5041@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
>
> d started: state = MASTER, mcast_ifn = syz_tun, syncid = 0, id = 0
> BUG: memory leak
> unreferenced object 0xffff8881206bf700 (size 32):
> comm "syz-executor761", pid 7268, jiffies 4294943441 (age 20.470s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 00 40 7c 09 81 88 ff ff 80 45 b8 21 81 88 ff ff .@|......E.!....
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [<0000000057619e23>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive
> include/linux/kmemleak.h:55 [inline]
> [<0000000057619e23>] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:439 [inline]
> [<0000000057619e23>] slab_alloc mm/slab.c:3326 [inline]
> [<0000000057619e23>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x13d/0x280 mm/slab.c:3553
> [<0000000086ce5479>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:547 [inline]
> [<0000000086ce5479>] start_sync_thread+0x5d2/0xe10
> net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:1862
> [<000000001a9229cc>] do_ip_vs_set_ctl+0x4c5/0x780
> net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:2402
> [<00000000ece457c8>] nf_sockopt net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:106 [inline]
> [<00000000ece457c8>] nf_setsockopt+0x4c/0x80
> net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:115
> [<00000000942f62d4>] ip_setsockopt net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1258 [inline]
> [<00000000942f62d4>] ip_setsockopt+0x9b/0xb0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1238
> [<00000000a56a8ffd>] udp_setsockopt+0x4e/0x90 net/ipv4/udp.c:2616
> [<00000000fa895401>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x38/0x50
> net/core/sock.c:3130
> [<0000000095eef4cf>] __sys_setsockopt+0x98/0x120 net/socket.c:2078
> [<000000009747cf88>] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2089 [inline]
> [<000000009747cf88>] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2086 [inline]
> [<000000009747cf88>] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x26/0x30 net/socket.c:2086
> [<00000000ded8ba80>] do_syscall_64+0x76/0x1a0
> arch/x86/entry/common.c:301
> [<00000000893b4ac8>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>
The bug is that ownership of some memory is passed to a kthread started by
kthread_run(), but the kthread can be stopped before it actually executes the
threadfn. See the code in kernel/kthread.c:
ret = -EINTR;
if (!test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP, &self->flags)) {
cgroup_kthread_ready();
__kthread_parkme(self);
ret = threadfn(data);
}
So, apparently the thread parameters must always be owned by the owner of the
kthread, not by the kthread itself. It seems like this would be a common
mistake in kernel code; I'm surprised this doesn't come up more...
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-11 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-28 18:28 memory leak in start_sync_thread syzbot
2019-06-11 1:06 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2019-06-11 19:52 ` Julian Anastasov
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