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Date:   Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:40:51 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+a785d07959bc94837d51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
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        Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] memory leak in xas_create
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 08:54:28AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 22:47, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 01:38:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:13:23 -0700 syzbot <syzbot+a785d07959bc94837d51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > > >
> > > > HEAD commit:    c1084b6c5620 Merge tag 'soc-fixes-5.19-2' of git://git.ker..
> > > > git tree:       upstream
> > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14967ccc080000
> > > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=916233b7694a38ff
> > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a785d07959bc94837d51
> > > > compiler:       gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
> > > > syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=122ae834080000
> > > >
> > > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > > Reported-by: syzbot+a785d07959bc94837d51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > >
> > > > 2022/07/05 05:22:17 executed programs: 828
> > > > 2022/07/05 05:22:23 executed programs: 846
> > > > 2022/07/05 05:22:30 executed programs: 866
> > > > 2022/07/05 05:22:37 executed programs: 875
> > > > BUG: memory leak
> > >
> > > Thanks.  Presumably due to khugepaged changes.
> >
> > Huh, I was expecting it to be something I'd messed up.  I've been
> > looking at it today, but no luck figuring it out so far.
> >
> > > Can we expect a bisection search?
> >
> > We only have a syz reproducer so far, and if I understand correctly,
> > it's probably because this is a flaky test (because it's trying to
> > find something that's a race condition).
> >
> > I expect a bisection search to go badly wrong if this is true.
> 
> Is it possible that parts of xas are not freed on the error paths?
> I don't immediately see where anything is freed on these error paths:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/xarray.c?id=c1084b6c5620a743f86947caca66d90f24060f56#n681
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/xarray.c?id=c1084b6c5620a743f86947caca66d90f24060f56#n721
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/khugepaged.c?id=c1084b6c5620a743f86947caca66d90f24060f56#n1675

There's nothing to free; if a node is allocated, then it's stored in
the tree where it can later be found and reused.