Re: [PATCH] RDMA/restrack: Fix potential invalid address access

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Thu Mar 07 2024 - 04:13:43 EST


On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 05:55:15PM +0800, Wenchao Hao wrote:
> struct rdma_restrack_entry's kern_name was set to KBUILD_MODNAME
> in ib_create_cq(), while if the module exited but forgot del this
> rdma_restrack_entry, it would cause a invalid address access in
> rdma_restrack_clean() when print the owner of this rdma_restrack_entry.
>
> Fix this issue by using kstrdup() to set rdma_restrack_entry's
> kern_name.

I don't like kstrdup() and would like to avoid it, this rdma_restrack_clean()
is purely for debugging and for a long time all upstream ULPs are "clean"
from these not-released bugs.

So my suggestion is to delete that part of code and it will be good enough.

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
index 01a499a8b88d..27727138f188 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
@@ -60,47 +60,14 @@ static const char *type2str(enum rdma_restrack_type type)
void rdma_restrack_clean(struct ib_device *dev)
{
struct rdma_restrack_root *rt = dev->res;
- struct rdma_restrack_entry *e;
- char buf[TASK_COMM_LEN];
- bool found = false;
- const char *owner;
int i;

for (i = 0 ; i < RDMA_RESTRACK_MAX; i++) {
struct xarray *xa = &dev->res[i].xa;

- if (!xa_empty(xa)) {
- unsigned long index;
-
- if (!found) {
- pr_err("restrack: %s", CUT_HERE);
- dev_err(&dev->dev, "BUG: RESTRACK detected leak of resources\n");
- }
- xa_for_each(xa, index, e) {
- if (rdma_is_kernel_res(e)) {
- owner = e->kern_name;
- } else {
- /*
- * There is no need to call get_task_struct here,
- * because we can be here only if there are more
- * get_task_struct() call than put_task_struct().
- */
- get_task_comm(buf, e->task);
- owner = buf;
- }
-
- pr_err("restrack: %s %s object allocated by %s is not freed\n",
- rdma_is_kernel_res(e) ? "Kernel" :
- "User",
- type2str(e->type), owner);
- }
- found = true;
- }
+ WARN_ON(!xa_empty(xa));
xa_destroy(xa);
}
- if (found)
- pr_err("restrack: %s", CUT_HERE);
-
kfree(rt);
}


>
> Signed-off-by: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
> index 01a499a8b88d..6605011c4edc 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ static void rdma_restrack_attach_task(struct rdma_restrack_entry *res,
> void rdma_restrack_set_name(struct rdma_restrack_entry *res, const char *caller)
> {
> if (caller) {
> - res->kern_name = caller;
> + kfree(res->kern_name);
> + res->kern_name = kstrdup(caller, GFP_KERNEL);
> return;
> }
>
> @@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ void rdma_restrack_parent_name(struct rdma_restrack_entry *dst,
> const struct rdma_restrack_entry *parent)
> {
> if (rdma_is_kernel_res(parent))
> - dst->kern_name = parent->kern_name;
> + dst->kern_name = kstrdup(parent->kern_name, GFP_KERNEL);
> else
> rdma_restrack_attach_task(dst, parent->task);
> }
> @@ -306,6 +307,7 @@ static void restrack_release(struct kref *kref)
> put_task_struct(res->task);
> res->task = NULL;
> }
> + kfree(res->kern_name);
> complete(&res->comp);
> }
>
> --
> 2.32.0
>