]> Git Repo - linux.git/commitdiff
x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
authorBaoquan He <[email protected]>
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:32:24 +0000 (19:32 +0800)
committerakpm <[email protected]>
Wed, 1 Jun 2022 22:57:16 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
This is reported by kmemleak detector:

unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096):
  comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .ELF............
    04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..>.............
  backtrace:
    [<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170
    [<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160
    [<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0
    [<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470
    [<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0
    [<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0
    [<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0
    [<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530
    [<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to
store elf headers.  While it's not freed back to system correctly when
kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded.  Then memory leak is caused.  Fix it
by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(),
and freeing the buffer there.

And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code.  Before
calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has
been initialized.  So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL.  It doesn't make
sense to free the elf header buffer in the place.

Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on
x86_64 inside Redhat.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c

index 566bb8e171492dfe6db136c5ff82fc080d305bd5..0611fd83858e6404da8c9124d15a09a72016b97e 100644 (file)
@@ -376,9 +376,6 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
 void *arch_kexec_kernel_image_load(struct kimage *image)
 {
-       vfree(image->elf_headers);
-       image->elf_headers = NULL;
-
        if (!image->fops || !image->fops->load)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOEXEC);
 
@@ -514,6 +511,15 @@ overflow:
               (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info), value);
        return -ENOEXEC;
 }
+
+int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
+{
+       vfree(image->elf_headers);
+       image->elf_headers = NULL;
+       image->elf_headers_sz = 0;
+
+       return kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default(image);
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
 
 static int
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