[systemd-devel] BUG: kworker + systemd-udevd memory leaks found in 6.1.0-rc4

[Mirsad Goran Todorovac]

On 10.11.2022. 9:28, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> This bug is confirmed in 6.1-rc4, among the "thermald" and "systemd-dev"
> kernel memory leaks, potentially exposing race conditions or other more
> serious bug.
>> Maybe, but that sadly is also true for a lot of other known issues, for
>> example those in this quite long list:
>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream#open
>>
>> It would help if you could pinpoint the problem, then we know who should
>> look into this. You CCed me and the regression list, so I assume it's a
>> regression. Hence: Could you try to bisect it?
>>
>> Ciao, Thorsten

Hi, Thorsten!

I am taking this task, however, it might not be a relatively easy bisect 
like the past
two or three (probably were beginner's luck).

It appears to predate 4.19:

$ head -13 memleak-kwork-4.19.0-08-84df9525b0c2-memlk-menu-al.log
unreferenced object 0xffff8ff917c79c40 (size 16):
   comm "kworker/u12:4", pid 422, jiffies 4294672757 (age 380.342s)
   hex dump (first 16 bytes):
     6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 memstick0.......
   backtrace:
     [<000000004f7bc99c>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90
     [<00000000f00ab312>] dev_set_name+0x57/0x70
     [<000000001fd9518e>] memstick_check+0x99/0x330 [memstick]
     [<000000008c797991>] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x3a0
     [<00000000405c5133>] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
     [<0000000060a58c2e>] kthread+0x112/0x130
     [<000000004b138871>] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
     [<0000000029f3e0aa>] 0xffffffffffffffff
$

Cheers,
Mirsad

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