44b1ee304b
commit d0d51a97063db4704a5ef6bc978dddab1636a306 upstream.
If nilfs_attach_log_writer() failed to create a log writer thread, it
frees a data structure of the log writer without any cleanup. After
commit e912a5b66837 ("nilfs2: use root object to get ifile"), this causes
a leak of struct nilfs_root, which started to leak an ifile metadata inode
and a kobject on that struct.
In addition, if the kernel is booted with panic_on_warn, the above
ifile metadata inode leak will cause the following panic when the
nilfs2 kernel module is removed:
kmem_cache_destroy nilfs2_inode_cache: Slab cache still has objects when
called from nilfs_destroy_cachep+0x16/0x3a [nilfs2]
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1464 at mm/slab_common.c:494 kmem_cache_destroy+0x138/0x140
...
RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_destroy+0x138/0x140
Code: 00 20 00 00 e8 a9 55 d8 ff e9 76 ff ff ff 48 8b 53 60 48 c7 c6 20 70 65 86 48 c7 c7 d8 69 9c 86 48 8b 4c 24 28 e8 ef 71 c7 00 <0f> 0b e9 53 ff ff ff c3 48 81 ff ff 0f 00 00 77 03 31 c0 c3 53 48
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? nilfs_palloc_freev.cold.24+0x58/0x58 [nilfs2]
nilfs_destroy_cachep+0x16/0x3a [nilfs2]
exit_nilfs_fs+0xa/0x1b [nilfs2]
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x1d9/0x3a0
? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1a/0x50
? syscall_trace_enter.isra.19+0x119/0x190
do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
...
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
This patch fixes these issues by calling nilfs_detach_log_writer() cleanup
function if spawning the log writer thread fails.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221007085226.57667-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: e912a5b66837 ("nilfs2: use root object to get ifile")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+7381dc4ad60658ca4c05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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