fork: free thread in copy_process on failure

When using this program (as root):

	#include <err.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <unistd.h>

	#include <sys/io.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>

	#define ITER 1000
	#define FORKERS 15
	#define THREADS (6000/FORKERS) // 1850 is proc max

	static void fork_100_wait()
	{
		unsigned a, to_wait = 0;

		printf("\t%d forking %d\n", THREADS, getpid());

		for (a = 0; a < THREADS; a++) {
			switch (fork()) {
			case 0:
				usleep(1000);
				exit(0);
				break;
			case -1:
				break;
			default:
				to_wait++;
				break;
			}
		}

		printf("\t%d forked from %d, waiting for %d\n", THREADS, getpid(),
				to_wait);

		for (a = 0; a < to_wait; a++)
			wait(NULL);

		printf("\t%d waited from %d\n", THREADS, getpid());
	}

	static void run_forkers()
	{
		pid_t forkers[FORKERS];
		unsigned a;

		for (a = 0; a < FORKERS; a++) {
			switch ((forkers[a] = fork())) {
			case 0:
				fork_100_wait();
				exit(0);
				break;
			case -1:
				err(1, "DIE fork of %d'th forker", a);
				break;
			default:
				break;
			}
		}

		for (a = 0; a < FORKERS; a++)
			waitpid(forkers[a], NULL, 0);
	}

	int main()
	{
		unsigned a;
		int ret;

		ret = ioperm(10, 20, 0);
		if (ret < 0)
			err(1, "ioperm");

		for (a = 0; a < ITER; a++)
			run_forkers();

		return 0;
	}

kmemleak reports many occurences of this leak:
unreferenced object 0xffff8805917c8000 (size 8192):
  comm "fork-leak", pid 2932, jiffies 4295354292 (age 1871.028s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff814cfbf5>] kmemdup+0x25/0x50
    [<ffffffff8103ab43>] copy_thread_tls+0x6c3/0x9a0
    [<ffffffff81150174>] copy_process+0x1a84/0x5790
    [<ffffffff811dc375>] wake_up_new_task+0x2d5/0x6f0
    [<ffffffff8115411d>] _do_fork+0x12d/0x820
...

Due to the leakage of the memory items which should have been freed in
arch/x86/kernel/process.c:exit_thread().

Make sure the memory is freed when fork fails later in copy_process.
This is done by calling exit_thread with the thread to kill.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Liqin <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <[email protected]>
Cc: Lennox Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Kuo <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Miao <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 8fbed7194af1f7c70f3e1592901d61dcc98853a6..103d78fd8f753c8fcc923ecd0cbf8b0c619712ec 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
                pid = alloc_pid(p->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children);
                if (IS_ERR(pid)) {
                        retval = PTR_ERR(pid);
-                       goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
+                       goto bad_fork_cleanup_thread;
                }
        }
 
@@ -1652,6 +1652,8 @@ bad_fork_cancel_cgroup:
 bad_fork_free_pid:
        if (pid != &init_struct_pid)
                free_pid(pid);
+bad_fork_cleanup_thread:
+       exit_thread(p);
 bad_fork_cleanup_io:
        if (p->io_context)
                exit_io_context(p);