The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:
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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
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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: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <[email protected]>
---
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);
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