Re: [PATCH v2] cgroup: Fix memory leak when parsing multiple source parameters

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Dec 16 2020 - 10:12:54 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:29:43AM +0800, Qinglang Miao wrote:
> A memory leak is found in cgroup1_parse_param() when multiple source
> parameters overwrite fc->source in the fs_context struct without free.
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff888100d930e0 (size 16):
> comm "mount", pid 520, jiffies 4303326831 (age 152.783s)
> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
> 74 65 73 74 6c 65 61 6b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 testleak........
> backtrace:
> [<000000003e5023ec>] kmemdup_nul+0x2d/0xa0
> [<00000000377dbdaa>] vfs_parse_fs_string+0xc0/0x150
> [<00000000cb2b4882>] generic_parse_monolithic+0x15a/0x1d0
> [<000000000f750198>] path_mount+0xee1/0x1820
> [<0000000004756de2>] do_mount+0xea/0x100
> [<0000000094cafb0a>] __x64_sys_mount+0x14b/0x1f0
>
> Fix this bug by permitting a single source parameter and rejecting with
> an error all subsequent ones.
>
> Fixes: 8d2451f4994f ("cgroup1: switch to option-by-option parsing")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to cgroup/for-5.11.

Thanks.

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tejun