mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free

A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object->pointer,
likely due to the following race.

  TASK A             TASK B                     TASK C
  kmemleak_write
   (with "scan" and
   NOT "scan=on")
  kmemleak_scan()
                     create_object
                     kmem_cache_alloc fails
                     kmemleak_disable
                     kmemleak_do_cleanup
                     kmemleak_free_enabled = 0
                                                kfree
                                                kmemleak_free bails out
                                                 (kmemleak_free_enabled is 0)
                                                slub frees object->pointer
  update_checksum
  crash - object->pointer
   freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)

kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for
direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write.  So add a wait for
kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it
fix the comment on stop_scan_thread.

[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index e83987c..46c2290 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1657,8 +1657,7 @@ static void start_scan_thread(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread. This function must be called
- * with the scan_mutex held.
+ * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread.
  */
 static void stop_scan_thread(void)
 {
@@ -1921,12 +1920,15 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
 {
        stop_scan_thread();
 
+       mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
        /*
-        * Once the scan thread has stopped, it is safe to no longer track
-        * object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and the memory
-        * accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop() function.
+        * Once it is made sure that kmemleak_scan has stopped, it is safe to no
+        * longer track object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and
+        * the memory accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop()
+        * function.
         */
        kmemleak_free_enabled = 0;
+       mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
 
        if (!kmemleak_found_leaks)
                __kmemleak_do_cleanup();