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authorSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>2021-12-31 07:12:34 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-01-05 14:42:39 +0300
commitffe4a1ba1a82c416a6b3a09d46594f6a885ae141 (patch)
treee5aeb0d52599508e6d4b61d84e7aae5220efeb7e /mm/damon
parent466267ced87dd514fc0f64e477c3ef5bb881d4f3 (diff)
downloadlinux-ffe4a1ba1a82c416a6b3a09d46594f6a885ae141.tar.xz
mm/damon/dbgfs: fix 'struct pid' leaks in 'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'
commit ebb3f994dd92f8fb4d70c7541091216c1e10cb71 upstream. DAMON debugfs interface increases the reference counts of 'struct pid's for targets from the 'target_ids' file write callback ('dbgfs_target_ids_write()'), but decreases the counts only in DAMON monitoring termination callback ('dbgfs_before_terminate()'). Therefore, when 'target_ids' file is repeatedly written without DAMON monitoring start/termination, the reference count is not decreased and therefore memory for the 'struct pid' cannot be freed. This commit fixes this issue by decreasing the reference counts when 'target_ids' is written. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211229124029.23348-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 4bc05954d007 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/damon')
-rw-r--r--mm/damon/dbgfs.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
index d3bc110430f9..36624990b577 100644
--- a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
+++ b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static ssize_t dbgfs_target_ids_write(struct file *file,
const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct damon_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
+ struct damon_target *t, *next_t;
char *kbuf, *nrs;
unsigned long *targets;
ssize_t nr_targets;
@@ -224,6 +225,13 @@ static ssize_t dbgfs_target_ids_write(struct file *file,
goto unlock_out;
}
+ /* remove previously set targets */
+ damon_for_each_target_safe(t, next_t, ctx) {
+ if (targetid_is_pid(ctx))
+ put_pid((struct pid *)t->id);
+ damon_destroy_target(t);
+ }
+
err = damon_set_targets(ctx, targets, nr_targets);
if (err) {
if (targetid_is_pid(ctx))