On Sat, 2024-02-17 at 16:14 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:

The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:

================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm "cachefilesd2", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [<ffffffff8eb8a1a5>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [<ffffffff8e917f86>] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [<ffffffffc002eeef>] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [<ffffffffc00243ec>] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [<ffffffffc0025216>] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8ebc4a3b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [<ffffffff8ebc5069>] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [<ffffffff8f6d4662>] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [<ffffffff8f8000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 ==================================================================

Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com

---

fs/cachefiles/cache.c | 2 ++ fs/cachefiles/daemon.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/cache.c b/fs/cachefiles/cache.c index 7077f72e6f47..f449f7340aad 100644 --- a/fs/cachefiles/cache.c +++ b/fs/cachefiles/cache.c @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ int cachefiles_add_cache(struct cachefiles_cache *cache) dput(root); error_open_root: cachefiles_end_secure(cache, saved_cred);

• put_cred(cache->cache_cred);
• cache->cache_cred = NULL;

error_getsec: fscache_relinquish_cache(cache_cookie); cache->cache = NULL; diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c b/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c index 3f24905f4066..6465e2574230 100644 --- a/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c +++ b/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c @@ -816,6 +816,7 @@ static void cachefiles_daemon_unbind(struct cachefiles_cache *cache) cachefiles_put_directory(cache->graveyard); cachefiles_put_directory(cache->store); mntput(cache->mnt);

• put_cred(cache->cache_cred);

kfree(cache->rootdirname); kfree(cache->secctx);

Looks reasonable to me too. Nice catch:

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org