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[2/2] fs: btrfs: Don't leak memory when failing add fsid

Message ID 20190513033912.3436-3-tobin@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Fix kobject error path memleaks | expand

Commit Message

Tobin C. Harding May 13, 2019, 3:39 a.m. UTC
A failed call to kobject_init_and_add() must be followed by a call to
kobject_put().  Currently in the error path when adding fs_devices we
are missing this call.  This could be fixed by calling
btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() if btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid() returns an error or
by adding a call to kobject_put() directly in btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid().
Here we choose the second option because it prevents the slightly
unusual error path handling requirements of kobject from leaking out
into btrfs functions.

Add a call to kobject_put() in the error path of kobject_add_and_init().
This causes the release method to be called if kobject_init_and_add()
fails.  open_tree() is the function that calls btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid()
and the error code in this function is already written with the
assumption that the release method is called during the error path of
open_tree() (as seen by the call to btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() under the
fail_fsdev_sysfs label).

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
---
 fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Nikolay Borisov May 13, 2019, 6:04 a.m. UTC | #1
On 13.05.19 г. 6:39 ч., Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> A failed call to kobject_init_and_add() must be followed by a call to
> kobject_put().  Currently in the error path when adding fs_devices we
> are missing this call.  This could be fixed by calling
> btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() if btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid() returns an error or
> by adding a call to kobject_put() directly in btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid().
> Here we choose the second option because it prevents the slightly
> unusual error path handling requirements of kobject from leaking out
> into btrfs functions.
> 
> Add a call to kobject_put() in the error path of kobject_add_and_init().
> This causes the release method to be called if kobject_init_and_add()
> fails.  open_tree() is the function that calls btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid()
> and the error code in this function is already written with the
> assumption that the release method is called during the error path of
> open_tree() (as seen by the call to btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() under the
> fail_fsdev_sysfs label).

I'm not familiar with the internals of kobject but
btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid calls __btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid which in turn
does kobject_del followed by kobject_put so its sequence is not exactly
identical with your change. Presumably kobject_del is only required if
you want to dispose of successfully registered sysfs node. This implies
that __btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid is actually broken when it comes to
handling failed sysfs_add_fsid?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
> index 5a5930e3d32b..2f078b77fe14 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
> @@ -825,7 +825,12 @@ int btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devs,
>  	fs_devs->fsid_kobj.kset = btrfs_kset;
>  	error = kobject_init_and_add(&fs_devs->fsid_kobj,
>  				&btrfs_ktype, parent, "%pU", fs_devs->fsid);
> -	return error;
> +	if (error) {
> +		kobject_put(&fs_devs->fsid_kobj);
> +		return error;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  int btrfs_sysfs_add_mounted(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
>
Greg KH May 13, 2019, 7:12 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 01:39:12PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> A failed call to kobject_init_and_add() must be followed by a call to
> kobject_put().  Currently in the error path when adding fs_devices we
> are missing this call.  This could be fixed by calling
> btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() if btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid() returns an error or
> by adding a call to kobject_put() directly in btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid().
> Here we choose the second option because it prevents the slightly
> unusual error path handling requirements of kobject from leaking out
> into btrfs functions.
> 
> Add a call to kobject_put() in the error path of kobject_add_and_init().
> This causes the release method to be called if kobject_init_and_add()
> fails.  open_tree() is the function that calls btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid()
> and the error code in this function is already written with the
> assumption that the release method is called during the error path of
> open_tree() (as seen by the call to btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() under the
> fail_fsdev_sysfs label).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
> index 5a5930e3d32b..2f078b77fe14 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
> @@ -825,7 +825,12 @@ int btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devs,
>  	fs_devs->fsid_kobj.kset = btrfs_kset;
>  	error = kobject_init_and_add(&fs_devs->fsid_kobj,
>  				&btrfs_ktype, parent, "%pU", fs_devs->fsid);
> -	return error;
> +	if (error) {
> +		kobject_put(&fs_devs->fsid_kobj);
> +		return error;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  int btrfs_sysfs_add_mounted(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tobin Harding May 13, 2019, 10:57 a.m. UTC | #3
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 09:04:49AM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13.05.19 г. 6:39 ч., Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > A failed call to kobject_init_and_add() must be followed by a call to
> > kobject_put().  Currently in the error path when adding fs_devices we
> > are missing this call.  This could be fixed by calling
> > btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() if btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid() returns an error or
> > by adding a call to kobject_put() directly in btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid().
> > Here we choose the second option because it prevents the slightly
> > unusual error path handling requirements of kobject from leaking out
> > into btrfs functions.
> > 
> > Add a call to kobject_put() in the error path of kobject_add_and_init().
> > This causes the release method to be called if kobject_init_and_add()
> > fails.  open_tree() is the function that calls btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid()
> > and the error code in this function is already written with the
> > assumption that the release method is called during the error path of
> > open_tree() (as seen by the call to btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid() under the
> > fail_fsdev_sysfs label).
> 
> I'm not familiar with the internals of kobject but
> btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid calls __btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid which in turn
> does kobject_del followed by kobject_put so its sequence is not exactly
> identical with your change. Presumably kobject_del is only required if
> you want to dispose of successfully registered sysfs node. This implies
> that __btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid is actually broken when it comes to
> handling failed sysfs_add_fsid?

kobject_del() is not technically required in __btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid()
since if kobject_put() drops the reference count to 0 and kobject_del()
has not been called then the kobject infrastructure will call
kobject_del() for us (and we get a pr_debug() message).  The code
sequence is correct although not _exactly_ written as the kobject
authors intended (I am not one of those authors, I'm just learning).

Thanks for looking at this.

	Tobin
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
index 5a5930e3d32b..2f078b77fe14 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/sysfs.c
@@ -825,7 +825,12 @@  int btrfs_sysfs_add_fsid(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devs,
 	fs_devs->fsid_kobj.kset = btrfs_kset;
 	error = kobject_init_and_add(&fs_devs->fsid_kobj,
 				&btrfs_ktype, parent, "%pU", fs_devs->fsid);
-	return error;
+	if (error) {
+		kobject_put(&fs_devs->fsid_kobj);
+		return error;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 int btrfs_sysfs_add_mounted(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)