[dm-devel] dm-bufio: fix memleak when using a dm_buffer's inline bio

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Dec 01 2014 at 11:23am -0500,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> > When dm-bufio sets out to use the bio built into a struct dm_buffer to
> > issue an IO, it needs to call bio_reset after it's done with the bio
> > so that we can free things attached to the bio such as the integrity
> > payload.  Therefore, inject our own endio callback to take care of
> > the bio_reset after calling submit_io's end_io callback.
> > 
> > Test case:
> > 1. modprobe scsi_debug delay=0 dif=1 dix=199 ato=1 dev_size_mb=300
> > 2. Set up a dm-bufio client, e.g. dm-verity, on the scsi_debug device
> > 3. Repeatedly read metadata and watch kmalloc-192 leak!
> > 
> > Fix is against 3.18-rc6.
> > 
> > +/* Reset the bio to free attached bio integrity profiles when we're done */
> > +static void inline_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
> > +{
> > +	bio_end_io_t *end_fn;
> > +
> > +	end_fn = bio->bi_private;
> > +	end_fn(bio, error);
> > +	bio_reset(bio);
> > +}
> 
> This is wrong - when end_fn clears the B_READING or B_WRITING flag, the 
> buffer may be freed by the background cleanup - so bio_reset may be 
> modifying freed memory here. We need to call bio_reset before end_fn.

OK, I'll fold your fix in.