2020-04-20 12:00:35

by Trond Myklebust

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Fix refcnt leak in rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt

On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 13:45 +0800, Xiyu Yang wrote:
> rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt() invokes xprt_switch_get() and
> xprt_get(),
> which returns a reference of the rpc_xprt_switch object to "data-
> >xps"
> and a reference of the rpc_xprt object to "data->xprt" with increased
> refcount.
>
> When rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt() returns, local variable "data" and
> its
> field "xps" as well as "xprt" becomes invalid, so their refcounts
> should
> be decreased to keep refcount balanced.
>
> The reference counting issue happens in one exception handling paths
> of
> rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt(). When rpc_call_null_helper() returns
> IS_ERR, the refcnt increased by xprt_switch_get() and xprt_get() are
> not
> decreased, causing a refcnt leak.
>
> Fix this issue by calling rpc_cb_add_xprt_release() to decrease
> related
> refcounted fields in "data" and then release it when
> rpc_call_null_helper() returns IS_ERR.
>
> Fixes: 7f554890587c ("SUNRPC: Allow addition of new transports to a
> struct rpc_clnt")
> Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> index 7324b21f923e..f86d9ae2167f 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> @@ -2803,8 +2803,10 @@ int rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt(struct rpc_clnt
> *clnt,
> task = rpc_call_null_helper(clnt, xprt, NULL,
> RPC_TASK_SOFT|RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN|RPC_TASK_ASYNC|
> RPC_TASK_NULLCREDS,
> &rpc_cb_add_xprt_call_ops, data);
> - if (IS_ERR(task))
> + if (IS_ERR(task)) {
> + rpc_cb_add_xprt_release(data);
> return PTR_ERR(task);

We should just get rid of the IS_ERR() condition here. It cannot ever
trigger, which is why rpc_run_task() no longer checks for it, and no
longer calls the ->rpc_release() method on error.

> + }
> rpc_put_task(task);
> success:
> return 1;
--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
[email protected]