Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: Fix memory leak in copy_process()

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Mon Mar 15 2021 - 04:32:29 EST


On 3/15/21 9:18 AM, qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello Zqiang, please resend this patch with bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in Cc, so it
actually reaches the rest of BPF community for review, thanks!

The syzbot report a memleak follow:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888101b41d00 (size 120):
comm "kworker/u4:0", pid 8, jiffies 4294944270 (age 12.780s)
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8125dc56>] alloc_pid+0x66/0x560
[<ffffffff81226405>] copy_process+0x1465/0x25e0
[<ffffffff81227943>] kernel_clone+0xf3/0x670
[<ffffffff812281a1>] kernel_thread+0x61/0x80
[<ffffffff81253464>] call_usermodehelper_exec_work
[<ffffffff81253464>] call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0xc4/0x120
[<ffffffff812591c9>] process_one_work+0x2c9/0x600
[<ffffffff81259ab9>] worker_thread+0x59/0x5d0
[<ffffffff812611c8>] kthread+0x178/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8100227f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

unreferenced object 0xffff888110ef5c00 (size 232):
comm "kworker/u4:0", pid 8414, jiffies 4294944270 (age 12.780s)
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8154a0cf>] kmem_cache_zalloc
[<ffffffff8154a0cf>] __alloc_file+0x1f/0xf0
[<ffffffff8154a809>] alloc_empty_file+0x69/0x120
[<ffffffff8154a8f3>] alloc_file+0x33/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8154ab22>] alloc_file_pseudo+0xb2/0x140
[<ffffffff81559218>] create_pipe_files+0x138/0x2e0
[<ffffffff8126c793>] umd_setup+0x33/0x220
[<ffffffff81253574>] call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0xb4/0x1b0
[<ffffffff8100227f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

after the UMD process exits, the pipe_to_umh/pipe_from_umh and tgid
need to be release.

Fixes: d71fa5c9763c ("bpf: Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs.")
Reported-by: syzbot+44908bb56d2bfe56b28e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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v1->v2:
Judge whether the pointer variable tgid is valid.