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Nanyong Sun 5f5dec07ac nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
Patch series "nilfs2: fix incorrect usage of kobject".

This patchset from Nanyong Sun fixes memory leak issues and a NULL
pointer dereference issue caused by incorrect usage of kboject in nilfs2
sysfs implementation.

This patch (of 6):

Reported by syzkaller:

  BUG: memory leak
  unreferenced object 0xffff888100ca8988 (size 8):
  comm "syz-executor.1", pid 1930, jiffies 4294745569 (age 18.052s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
  6c 6f 6f 70 31 00 ff ff loop1...
  backtrace:
    kstrdup+0x36/0x70 mm/util.c:60
    kstrdup_const+0x35/0x60 mm/util.c:83
    kvasprintf_const+0xf1/0x180 lib/kasprintf.c:48
    kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 lib/kobject.c:289
    kobject_add_varg lib/kobject.c:384 [inline]
    kobject_init_and_add+0xc9/0x150 lib/kobject.c:473
    nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group+0x150/0x7d0 fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c:986
    init_nilfs+0xa21/0xea0 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:637
    nilfs_fill_super fs/nilfs2/super.c:1046 [inline]
    nilfs_mount+0x7b4/0xe80 fs/nilfs2/super.c:1316
    legacy_get_tree+0x105/0x210 fs/fs_context.c:592
    vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x2d0 fs/super.c:1498
    do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2905 [inline]
    path_mount+0xf9b/0x1990 fs/namespace.c:3235
    do_mount+0xea/0x100 fs/namespace.c:3248
    __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3456 [inline]
    __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3433 [inline]
    __x64_sys_mount+0x14b/0x1f0 fs/namespace.c:3433
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

If kobject_init_and_add return with error, then the cleanup of kobject
is needed because memory may be allocated in kobject_init_and_add
without freeing.

And the place of cleanup_dev_kobject should use kobject_put to free the
memory associated with the kobject.  As the section "Kobject removal" of
"Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst" says, kobject_del() just makes the
kobject "invisible", but it is not cleaned up.  And no more cleanup will
do after cleanup_dev_kobject, so kobject_put is needed here.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-1-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-2-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210629022556.3985106-2-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
arch trap: cleanup trap_init() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
block block-5.14-2021-08-27 2021-08-27 16:08:29 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto crypto: drbg - select SHA512 2021-07-16 15:49:31 +08:00
Documentation Documentation/llvm: update IRC location 2021-09-08 11:50:26 -07:00
drivers phy/drivers/stm32: use HZ macros 2021-09-08 11:50:26 -07:00
fs nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
include fs/epoll: use a per-cpu counter for user's watches count 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
init trap: cleanup trap_init() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel fs/epoll: use a per-cpu counter for user's watches count 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
lib lib/iov_iter.c: fix kernel-doc warnings 2021-09-08 11:50:26 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm percpu: remove export of pcpu_base_addr 2021-09-08 11:50:25 -07:00
net This is a one-liner fix for a serious bug that can cause the server to 2021-08-26 13:26:40 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: improve GIT_COMMIT_ID test 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
security bpf: Add lockdown check for probe_write_user helper 2021-08-10 10:10:10 +02:00
sound another sound-fixes for 5.14-rc7 2021-08-20 12:31:10 -07:00
tools tools: rename bitmap_alloc() to bitmap_zalloc() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories 2021-08-04 06:02:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update ClangBuiltLinux mailing list 2021-09-08 11:50:26 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14 2021-08-29 15:04:50 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.