Re: [PATCH RESEND] cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()

[Christian Brauner]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:14:31 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
> The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:
> 
> ==================================================================
> unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192):
>   comm "cachefilesd2", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace (crc ea38a44b):
>     [<ffffffff8eb8a1a5>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370
>     [<ffffffff8e917f86>] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0
>     [<ffffffffc002eeef>] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120
>     [<ffffffffc00243ec>] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0
>     [<ffffffffc0025216>] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0
>     [<ffffffff8ebc4a3b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520
>     [<ffffffff8ebc5069>] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0
>     [<ffffffff8f6d4662>] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140
>     [<ffffffff8f8000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
> ==================================================================
> 
> [...]

Sorry for the delay, David.

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Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/e21a2f17566c