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mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free
authorVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:01:16 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:42:05 +0000 (13:42 -1000)
commit914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700
treeb82ce8d72d056642a749d72c866be4936cf059cf
parentb213b54fbf9d282dc545252313d727f3972be8e0
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>
mm/kmemleak.c