Re: [PATCH 0/1] autofs: fix memory leak of waitqueues in autofs_catatonic_mode

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On 12/2/23 03:59, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> Syzkaller reports the leak [1]. It is reproducible.
>
> The following patch fixes the leak. It was proposed by Takeshi Misawa and
> tested by Syzbot.
>
> In other places of the code the waitqueue is freed when its wait_ctr
> becomes zero (see autofs_wait_release). So I think it is not actually
> supposed that inside autofs_catatonic_mode wait_ctr cannot be decreased to
> zero. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

This is a bit had to read but I think your saying there's an assumption

that wait_ctr can't become zero in autofs_catatonic_mode().


That's correct, the case of a waiting process getting sent a signal is

not accounted for and this can (as you observed) lead to the wait not

being freed and also not being freed at umount.


I think the change here should be sufficient to resolve the leak and

I can't think of any cases where this could cause a further problem.


>
> Also, looking at the discussion [2] of the '[PATCH] autofs4: use wake_up()
> instead of wake_up_interruptible', shouldn't wake_up_interruptible()
> inside autofs_catatonic_mode() be replaced with wake_up()?

This does imply that [2] should have been applied to autofs_catatonic_mode()

as well, I'm still trying to grok if that change would cause side effects

for the change here but I think not.


Ian