[PATCH 8/9] mm: kmemleak: erase page->freelist in slab_destroy

From: George Prekas <george@enfabrica.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>,
	George Prekas <george@enfabrica.net>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] mm: kmemleak: erase page->freelist in slab_destroy
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:04:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230123170419.7292-9-george@enfabrica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230123170419.7292-1-george@enfabrica.net>

slab_destroy frees the allocated memory pointed by page->freelist. It
should also erase the reference to it. Otherwise, when the memory is
reused for another object, kmemleak will find the stale pointer and
erroneously increase the reference count of the new object. That will
lead to undetected memory leaks.

Signed-off-by: George Prekas <george@enfabrica.net>
---
 mm/slab.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index aa5eb725ee9c..12acce274502 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1625,8 +1625,10 @@ static void slab_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct slab *slab)
 	 * From now on, we don't use freelist
 	 * although actual page can be freed in rcu context
 	 */
-	if (OFF_SLAB(cachep))
+	if (OFF_SLAB(cachep)) {
 		kfree(freelist);
+		kmemleak_erase(&slab->freelist);
+	}
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.37.1

