Commit-ID:  69a106c00e8554a7e6b3f4bb2967332670f89337
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/69a106c00e8554a7e6b3f4bb2967332670f89337
Author:     Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
AuthorDate: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:27:31 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 14:15:52 +0100

workqueue, lockdep: Fix a memory leak in wq->lock_name

The following commit:

  669de8bda87b ("kernel/workqueue: Use dynamic lockdep keys for workqueues")

introduced a memory leak as wq_free_lockdep() calls kfree(wq->lock_name),
but wq_init_lockdep() does not point wq->lock_name to the newly allocated
slab object.

This can be reproduced by running LTP fallocate04 followed by oom01 tests:

 unreferenced object 0xc0000005876384d8 (size 64):
  comm "fallocate04", pid 26972, jiffies 4297139141 (age 40370.480s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 77 71 5f 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 69 6f 6e 29 65  (wq_completion)e
    78 74 34 2d 72 73 76 2d 63 6f 6e 76 65 72 73 69  xt4-rsv-conversi
  backtrace:
    [<00000000cb452883>] kvasprintf+0x6c/0xe0
    [<000000004654ddac>] kasprintf+0x34/0x60
    [<000000001c68f311>] alloc_workqueue+0x1f8/0x6ac
    [<0000000003c2ad83>] ext4_fill_super+0x23d4/0x3c80 [ext4]
    [<0000000006610538>] mount_bdev+0x25c/0x290
    [<00000000bcf955ec>] ext4_mount+0x28/0x50 [ext4]
    [<0000000016e08fd3>] legacy_get_tree+0x4c/0xb0
    [<0000000042b6a5fc>] vfs_get_tree+0x6c/0x190
    [<00000000268ab022>] do_mount+0xb9c/0x1100
    [<00000000698e6898>] ksys_mount+0x158/0x180
    [<0000000064e391fd>] sys_mount+0x20/0x30
    [<00000000ba378f12>] system_call+0x5c/0x70

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Cc: catalin.mari...@arm.com
Cc: jiangshan...@gmail.com
Cc: t...@kernel.org
Fixes: 669de8bda87b ("kernel/workqueue: Use dynamic lockdep keys for 
workqueues")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307002731.47371-1-...@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index ecdd5e6f2166..e14da4f599ab 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3348,6 +3348,8 @@ static void wq_init_lockdep(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
        lock_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s", "(wq_completion)", wq->name);
        if (!lock_name)
                lock_name = wq->name;
+
+       wq->lock_name = lock_name;
        lockdep_init_map(&wq->lockdep_map, lock_name, &wq->key, 0);
 }
 

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