Re: [PATCH] seccomp: fix refcounter leak if fork/clone is terminated

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 03:41:35AM +0000, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> release_task, where the seccomp's filter refcounter is released, is not
> called for the case when the fork/clone is terminated midway by a
> signal. This leaves an extra reference that prevents filter from being
> destroyed even after all processes using it exit leading to a BPF JIT
> memory leak. Dereference the refcounter in the failure path of the
> copy_process function.
> 
> Fixes: 3a15fb6ed92c ("seccomp: release filter after task is fully dead")
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <ovt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Hey Oleksandr,

Thanks for the patch! I'm really puzzled as to why we never noticed this
and I'm trying to re-architect how this happend. But in any case,
there's a patch in the seccomp tree that fixes this:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?id=6d17452707ca

which is slighly different from your approach in that it moves
copy_seccomp() after the point of no return. Let us know if you see any
issues with this!

Christian