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From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, p.zabel@pengutronix.de,
	syzbot+398e7dc692ddbbb4cfec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:45:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f90fa0f-6d3b-0ca7-e894-eb971b3b69fa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210928092657.GI2048@kadam>

On 9/28/21 12:26, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:55:49AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> I don't have a solution.  I have commented before that I hate kobjects
>> for this reason because they lead to unfixable memory leaks during
>> probe.  But this leak will only happen with fault injection and so it
>> doesn't affect real life.  And even if it did, a leak it preferable to a
>> crash.
> 
> The fix for this should have gone in devm_of_mdiobus_register() but it's
> quite tricky.
> 
> drivers/net/phy/mdio_devres.c
>     106  int devm_of_mdiobus_register(struct device *dev, struct mii_bus *mdio,
>     107                               struct device_node *np)
>     108  {
>     109          struct mdiobus_devres *dr;
>     110          int ret;
>     111
>     112          if (WARN_ON(!devres_find(dev, devm_mdiobus_free,
>     113                                   mdiobus_devres_match, mdio)))
>     114                  return -EINVAL;
> 
> This leaks the bus.  Fix this leak by calling mdiobus_release(mdio);
> 
>     115
>     116          dr = devres_alloc(devm_mdiobus_unregister, sizeof(*dr), GFP_KERNEL);
>     117          if (!dr)
>     118                  return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Fix this path by calling mdiobus_release(mdio);
> 
>     119
>     120          ret = of_mdiobus_register(mdio, np);
>     121          if (ret) {
> 
> Ideally here we can could call device_put(mdio), but that won't work for
> the one error path that occurs before device_initialize(). /* Do not
> continue if the node is disabled */.
> 
> Maybe the code could be modified to call device_initialize() on the
> error path?  Sort of ugly but it would work.
> 
>     122                  devres_free(dr);
>     123                  return ret;
>     124          }
>     125
>     126          dr->mii = mdio;
>     127          devres_add(dev, dr);
>     128          return 0;
>     129  }
> 
> Then audit the callers, and there is only one which references the
> mdio_bus after devm_of_mdiobus_register() fails.  It's
> realtek_smi_setup_mdio().  Modify that debug statement.
> 
Thank you, Dan, for analysis, and it sounds reasonable to me.

Back to bug reported by syzbot: error happened in other place:

int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner)
{
....
	phydev = mdiobus_scan(bus, i);		<-- here
	if (IS_ERR(phydev) && (PTR_ERR(phydev) != -ENODEV)) {
		err = PTR_ERR(phydev);
		goto error;
	}
....
}

(You can take a look at the log [1] you won't find error message about 
mii_bus registration failure. I found this place while debugging locally)


So, Yanfei's patch is completely unrelated to bug reported by syzkaller 
and Reported-by tag is also wrong.

Can you, please, take a look at [2]. I think, I found the root case of 
the reported bug. Thank you :)


[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashLog&x=131c754b300000

[2] 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210927112017.19108-1-paskripkin@gmail.com/




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-26  4:53 [PATCH] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register Yanfei Xu
2021-09-26 15:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-09-27 12:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-09-28  8:55 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28  9:26   ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28  9:45     ` Pavel Skripkin [this message]
2021-09-28 10:39       ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28 10:46         ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 10:55           ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28 11:04             ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 10:59           ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28 11:06             ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 11:09               ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 11:30                 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28 11:45                   ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 12:23                     ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28 12:58                   ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-09-28 13:52                     ` Dan Carpenter
2021-09-28 15:41                       ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-09-28 15:48                         ` Dongliang Mu
2021-09-29  2:05                           ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-09-28 13:11 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-09-29 21:31 ` Denis Efremov

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