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Re: gigaset: memory leak in gigaset_initcshw

From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: 2016-02-05 21:25:53
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Paul Bolle [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On vr, 2016-02-05 at 17:06 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
quoted
If that would happen, then cs can be reused while the previous
quoted
cs->hw.ser is not freed yet. Just a guess.
I'll have to ponder on that a bit, sorry.
This is from the hit-the-code-until-it-confesses department:
--- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c
@@ -373,13 +373,9 @@ static void gigaset_freecshw(struct cardstate *cs)

 static void gigaset_device_release(struct device *dev)
 {
-       struct cardstate *cs = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-
-       if (!cs)
-               return;
+       struct ser_cardstate *scs = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
        dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
-       kfree(cs->hw.ser);
-       cs->hw.ser = NULL;
+       kfree(scs);
 }

 /*
@@ -408,7 +404,7 @@ static int gigaset_initcshw(struct cardstate *cs)
                cs->hw.ser = NULL;
                return rc;
        }
-       dev_set_drvdata(&cs->hw.ser->dev.dev, cs);
+       dev_set_drvdata(&cs->hw.ser->dev.dev, scs);

        tasklet_init(&cs->write_tasklet,
                     gigaset_modem_fill, (unsigned long) cs);
Does that make any difference?

Nope.
Almost 500 objects leaked in less than 10 seconds:

# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        1992   2015   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    155    155      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2024   2041   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    157    157      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2061   2080   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    160    160      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2091   2119   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    163    163      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2147   2171   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    167    167      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2228   2236   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    172    172      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2261   2288   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    176    176      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2289   2301   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    177    177      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2316   2340   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    180    180      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2324   2366   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    182    182      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2356   2379   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    183    183      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2450   2509   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    193    193      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2450   2509   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    193    193      0
# cat /proc/slabinfo | egrep "^kmalloc-2048"
kmalloc-2048        2450   2509   2520   13    8 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata    193    193      0
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