The patch titled Subject: ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is ipc-fix-memleak-if-msg_init_ns-failed-in-create_ipc_ns.patch

This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Wupeng Ma mawupeng1@huawei.com Subject: ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:31:29 +0800

Percpu memory allocation may failed during create_ipc_ns however this fail is not handled properly since ipc sysctls and mq sysctls is not released properly. Fix this by release these two resource when failure.

Here is the kmemleak stack when percpu failed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88819de2a600 (size 512): comm "shmem_2nstest", pid 120711, jiffies 4300542254 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 60 aa 9d 84 ff ff ff ff fc 18 48 b2 84 88 ff ff `.........H..... 04 00 00 00 a4 01 00 00 20 e4 56 81 ff ff ff ff ........ .V..... backtrace (crc be7cba35): [<ffffffff81b43f83>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x333/0x420 [<ffffffff81a52e56>] kmemdup_noprof+0x26/0x50 [<ffffffff821b2f37>] setup_mq_sysctls+0x57/0x1d0 [<ffffffff821b29cc>] copy_ipcs+0x29c/0x3b0 [<ffffffff815d6a10>] create_new_namespaces+0x1d0/0x920 [<ffffffff815d7449>] copy_namespaces+0x2e9/0x3e0 [<ffffffff815458f3>] copy_process+0x29f3/0x7ff0 [<ffffffff8154b080>] kernel_clone+0xc0/0x650 [<ffffffff8154b6b1>] __do_sys_clone+0xa1/0xe0 [<ffffffff843df8ff>] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x1c0 [<ffffffff846000b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023093129.3074301-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com Fixes: 72d1e611082e ("ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter") Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng mawupeng1@huawei.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

ipc/namespace.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/ipc/namespace.c~ipc-fix-memleak-if-msg_init_ns-failed-in-create_ipc_ns +++ a/ipc/namespace.c @@ -83,13 +83,15 @@ static struct ipc_namespace *create_ipc_

err = msg_init_ns(ns); if (err) - goto fail_put; + goto fail_ipc;

sem_init_ns(ns); shm_init_ns(ns);

return ns;

+fail_ipc: + retire_ipc_sysctls(ns); fail_mq: retire_mq_sysctls(ns);

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mawupeng1@huawei.com are

ipc-fix-memleak-if-msg_init_ns-failed-in-create_ipc_ns.patch