linux/include
Julian Anastasov 5db7c8b9f9 ipvs: fix tinfo memory leak in start_sync_thread
syzkaller reports for memory leak in start_sync_thread [1]

As Eric points out, kthread may start and stop before the
threadfn function is called, so there is no chance the
data (tinfo in our case) to be released in thread.

Fix this by releasing tinfo in the controlling code instead.

[1]
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881206bf700 (size 32):
 comm "syz-executor761", pid 7268, jiffies 4294943441 (age 20.470s)
 hex dump (first 32 bytes):
   00 40 7c 09 81 88 ff ff 80 45 b8 21 81 88 ff ff  .@|......E.!....
   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 backtrace:
   [<0000000057619e23>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:55 [inline]
   [<0000000057619e23>] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:439 [inline]
   [<0000000057619e23>] slab_alloc mm/slab.c:3326 [inline]
   [<0000000057619e23>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x13d/0x280 mm/slab.c:3553
   [<0000000086ce5479>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:547 [inline]
   [<0000000086ce5479>] start_sync_thread+0x5d2/0xe10 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:1862
   [<000000001a9229cc>] do_ip_vs_set_ctl+0x4c5/0x780 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:2402
   [<00000000ece457c8>] nf_sockopt net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:106 [inline]
   [<00000000ece457c8>] nf_setsockopt+0x4c/0x80 net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:115
   [<00000000942f62d4>] ip_setsockopt net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1258 [inline]
   [<00000000942f62d4>] ip_setsockopt+0x9b/0xb0 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1238
   [<00000000a56a8ffd>] udp_setsockopt+0x4e/0x90 net/ipv4/udp.c:2616
   [<00000000fa895401>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x38/0x50 net/core/sock.c:3130
   [<0000000095eef4cf>] __sys_setsockopt+0x98/0x120 net/socket.c:2078
   [<000000009747cf88>] __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2089 [inline]
   [<000000009747cf88>] __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2086 [inline]
   [<000000009747cf88>] __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x26/0x30 net/socket.c:2086
   [<00000000ded8ba80>] do_syscall_64+0x76/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:301
   [<00000000893b4ac8>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Reported-by: syzbot+7e2e50c8adfccd2e5041@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Fixes: 998e7a7680 ("ipvs: Use kthread_run() instead of doing a double-fork via kernel_thread()")
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2019-06-25 02:32:27 +02:00
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acpi treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
asm-generic treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428 2019-06-05 17:37:16 +02:00
clocksource treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
crypto treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 335 2019-06-05 17:37:06 +02:00
drm meson: A few G12A fixes across the driver (Neil) 2019-06-14 11:36:30 +02:00
dt-bindings treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 446 2019-06-05 17:37:18 +02:00
keys treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
kvm treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 342 2019-06-05 17:37:07 +02:00
linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-06-17 15:55:34 -07:00
math-emu math-emu: Use statement expressions to fix Wshift-count-overflow warning 2019-05-31 15:23:25 +08:00
media treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 316 2019-06-05 17:37:05 +02:00
memory
misc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
net ipvs: fix tinfo memory leak in start_sync_thread 2019-06-25 02:32:27 +02:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma SPDX update for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:52:42 -07:00
scsi treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 335 2019-06-05 17:37:06 +02:00
soc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 399 2019-06-05 17:37:12 +02:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2-rc5 2019-06-14 05:37:06 -10:00
target scsi: target/iscsi: Handle too large immediate data buffers correctly 2019-04-12 20:20:06 -04:00
trace treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 284 2019-06-05 17:36:37 +02:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-06-17 15:55:34 -07:00
video treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428 2019-06-05 17:37:16 +02:00
xen block: pass page to xen_biovec_phys_mergeable 2019-04-01 12:11:13 -06:00