The patch titled Subject: mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mempolicy-fix-mpol_new-leak-in-shared_policy_replace.patch

This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mempolicy-fix-mpol_new-leak-in-... and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mempolicy-fix-mpol_new-leak-in-...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com Subject: mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace

If mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be freed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not initialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might leak the unused mpol_new. This would happen if mempolicy was updated on the shared shmem file while the sp->lock has been dropped during the memory allocation.

This issue could be triggered easily with the below code snippet if there are many processes doing the below work at the same time:

shmid = shmget((key_t)5566, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, 0666|IPC_CREAT); shm = shmat(shmid, 0, 0); loop many times { mbind(shm, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_LOCAL, mask, maxnode, 0); mbind(shm + 128 * PAGE_SIZE, 128 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_DEFAULT, mask, maxnode, 0); }

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220329111416.27954-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Fixes: 42288fe366c4 ("mm: mempolicy: Convert shared_policy mutex to spinlock") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.8 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/mempolicy.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-fix-mpol_new-leak-in-shared_policy_replace +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2733,6 +2733,7 @@ alloc_new: mpol_new = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL); if (!mpol_new) goto err_out; + atomic_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1); goto restart; }

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@huawei.com are

mm-mempolicy-fix-mpol_new-leak-in-shared_policy_replace.patch mm-shmem-make-shmem_init-return-void.patch mm-memcg-remove-unneeded-nr_scanned.patch mm-mremap-use-helper-mlock_future_check.patch mm-z3fold-declare-z3fold_mount-with-__init.patch mm-z3fold-remove-obsolete-comment-in-z3fold_alloc.patch mm-z3fold-minor-clean-up-for-z3fold_free.patch mm-z3fold-remove-unneeded-page_mapcount_reset-and-clearpageprivate.patch mm-z3fold-remove-confusing-local-variable-l-reassignment.patch mm-z3fold-move-decrement-of-pool-pages_nr-into-__release_z3fold_page.patch mm-z3fold-remove-redundant-list_del_init-of-zhdr-buddy-in-z3fold_free.patch mm-z3fold-remove-unneeded-page_headless-check-in-free_handle.patch mm-compaction-use-helper-isolation_suitable.patch mm-migration-remove-unneeded-local-variable-mapping_locked.patch mm-migration-remove-unneeded-out-label.patch mm-migration-remove-unneeded-local-variable-page_lru.patch mm-migration-fix-the-confusing-pagetranshuge-check.patch mm-migration-use-helper-function-vma_lookup-in-add_page_for_migration.patch mm-migration-use-helper-macro-min-in-do_pages_stat.patch mm-migration-avoid-unneeded-nodemask_t-initialization.patch mm-migration-remove-some-duplicated-codes-in-migrate_pages.patch mm-migration-fix-potential-page-refcounts-leak-in-migrate_pages.patch mm-migration-fix-potential-invalid-node-access-for-reclaim-based-migration.patch mm-migration-fix-possible-do_pages_stat_array-racing-with-memory-offline.patch