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From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
To: Peilin Ye <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	Eric Paris <[email protected]>,
	Peilin Ye <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit, io_uring, io-wq: Fix memory leak in io_sq_thread() and io_wqe_worker()
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:28:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhRYGgCLiWx5LCoqgTj_RW_iQRLrzivWci7_UneN_=rwmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhRXypjNgDAwdARZz-md_DaSTs+9BpMik8AzWojG7ChexA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 9:16 AM Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 1:03 AM Peilin Ye <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Currently @audit_context is allocated twice for io_uring workers:
> >
> >   1. copy_process() calls audit_alloc();
> >   2. io_sq_thread() or io_wqe_worker() calls audit_alloc_kernel() (which
> >      is effectively audit_alloc()) and overwrites @audit_context,
> >      causing:
> >
> >   BUG: memory leak
> >   unreferenced object 0xffff888144547400 (size 1024):
> > <...>
> >     hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >       00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >       00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >     backtrace:
> >       [<ffffffff8135cfc3>] audit_alloc+0x133/0x210
> >       [<ffffffff81239e63>] copy_process+0xcd3/0x2340
> >       [<ffffffff8123b5f3>] create_io_thread+0x63/0x90
> >       [<ffffffff81686604>] create_io_worker+0xb4/0x230
> >       [<ffffffff81686f68>] io_wqe_enqueue+0x248/0x3b0
> >       [<ffffffff8167663a>] io_queue_iowq+0xba/0x200
> >       [<ffffffff816768b3>] io_queue_async+0x113/0x180
> >       [<ffffffff816840df>] io_req_task_submit+0x18f/0x1a0
> >       [<ffffffff816841cd>] io_apoll_task_func+0xdd/0x120
> >       [<ffffffff8167d49f>] tctx_task_work+0x11f/0x570
> >       [<ffffffff81272c4e>] task_work_run+0x7e/0xc0
> >       [<ffffffff8125a688>] get_signal+0xc18/0xf10
> >       [<ffffffff8111645b>] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x2b/0x730
> >       [<ffffffff812ea44e>] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x5e/0x180
> >       [<ffffffff844ae1b2>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x20
> >       [<ffffffff844a7e80>] do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80
> >
> > Then,
> >
> >   3. io_sq_thread() or io_wqe_worker() frees @audit_context using
> >      audit_free();
> >   4. do_exit() eventually calls audit_free() again, which is okay
> >      because audit_free() does a NULL check.
> >
> > Free the old @audit_context first in audit_alloc_kernel(), and delete
> > the redundant calls to audit_free() for less confusion.
> >
> > Fixes: 5bd2182d58e9 ("audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring")
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A better way to fix this memleak would probably be checking
> > @args->io_thread in copy_process()?  Something like:
> >
> >     if (args->io_thread)
> >         retval = audit_alloc_kernel();
> >     else
> >         retval = audit_alloc();
> >
> > But I didn't want to add another if to copy_process() for this bugfix.
> > Please suggest, thanks!
>
> Thanks for the report and patch!  I'll take a closer look at this
> today and get back to you.

I think the best solution to this is simply to remove the calls to
audit_alloc_kernel() in the io_uring and io-wq code, as well as the
audit_alloc_kernel() function itself.  As long as create_io_thread()
ends up calling copy_process to create the new kernel thread the
audit_context should be allocated correctly.  Peilin Ye, are you able
to draft a patch to do that and give it a test?

For those that may be wondering how this happened (I definitely was!),
it looks like when I first started working on the LSM/audit support
for io_uring it was before the v5.12-rc1 release when
create_io_thread() was introduced.  Prior to create_io_thread() it
appears that io_uring/io-wq wasn't calling into copy_process() and
thus was not getting an audit_context allocated in the kernel thread's
task_struct; the solution for those original development drafts was to
add a call to a new audit_alloc_kernel() which would handle the
audit_context allocation.  Unfortunately, I didn't notice the move to
create_io_thread() during development and the redundant
audit_alloc_kernel() calls remained :/

-- 
paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-03 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-03  5:02 [PATCH] audit, io_uring, io-wq: Fix memory leak in io_sq_thread() and io_wqe_worker() Peilin Ye
2022-08-03 13:16 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-03 19:28   ` Paul Moore [this message]
2022-08-03 19:39     ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-03 20:24     ` Peilin Ye
2022-08-03 22:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Peilin Ye
2022-08-04 13:51   ` Paul Moore
2022-08-04 14:32     ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-04 14:44       ` Paul Moore
2022-08-04 14:36   ` Jens Axboe

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