Covered in Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst ,
initramfs archives can carry an optional "TRAILER!!!" entry which serves
as a boundary for collecting and associating hardlinks with matching
inode and major / minor device numbers.
Although optional, if hardlinks are found in an archive without a
subsequent "TRAILER!!!" entry then the hardlink state hash table is
leaked, e.g. unfixed kernel, with initramfs_test.c hunk applied only:
unreferenced object 0xffff9405408cc000 (size 8192):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 53, jiffies 4294892519
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 81 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 69 6e 69 74 72 61 6d 66 ........initramf
backtrace (crc a9fb0ee0):
[<0000000066739faa>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x11d/0x250
[<00000000fc755219>] maybe_link.part.5+0xbc/0x120
[<000000000526a128>] do_name+0xce/0x2f0
[<00000000145c1048>] write_buffer+0x22/0x40
[<000000003f0b4f32>] unpack_to_rootfs+0xf9/0x2a0
[<00000000d6f7e5af>] initramfs_test_hardlink+0xe3/0x3f0
[<0000000014fde8d6>] kunit_try_run_case+0x5f/0x130
[<00000000dc9dafc5>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x18/0x30
[<000000001076c239>] kthread+0xc8/0x100
[<00000000d939f1c1>] ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x40
[<00000000f848ad1a>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Fix this by calling free_hash() after initramfs buffer processing in
unpack_to_rootfs(). An extra hardlink_seen global is added as an
optimization to avoid walking the 32 entry hash array unnecessarily.
The expectation is that a "TRAILER!!!" entry will normally be present,
and initramfs hardlinks are uncommon.
There is one user facing side-effect of this fix: hardlinks can
currently be associated across built-in and external initramfs archives,
*if* the built-in initramfs archive lacks a "TRAILER!!!" terminator. I'd
consider this cross-archive association broken, but perhaps it's used.
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <dd...@suse.de>
---
init/initramfs.c | 7 ++++++-
init/initramfs_test.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index c264f136c5281..99f3cac10d392 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ static __initdata struct hash {
struct hash *next;
char name[N_ALIGN(PATH_MAX)];
} *head[32];
+static __initdata bool hardlink_seen;
static inline int hash(int major, int minor, int ino)
{
@@ -109,19 +110,21 @@ static char __init *find_link(int major, int minor, int
ino,
strcpy(q->name, name);
q->next = NULL;
*p = q;
+ hardlink_seen = true;
return NULL;
}
static void __init free_hash(void)
{
struct hash **p, *q;
- for (p = head; p < head + 32; p++) {
+ for (p = head; hardlink_seen && p < head + 32; p++) {
while (*p) {
q = *p;
*p = q->next;
kfree(q);
}
}
+ hardlink_seen = false;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME
@@ -563,6 +566,8 @@ char * __init unpack_to_rootfs(char *buf, unsigned long len)
len -= my_inptr;
}
dir_utime();
+ /* free any hardlink state collected without optional TRAILER!!! */
+ free_hash();
kfree(cpio_buf);
return message;
}
diff --git a/init/initramfs_test.c b/init/initramfs_test.c
index 84b21f465bc3d..a2930c70cc817 100644
--- a/init/initramfs_test.c
+++ b/init/initramfs_test.c
@@ -319,11 +319,6 @@ static void __init initramfs_test_hardlink(struct kunit
*test)
.namesize = sizeof("initramfs_test_hardlink_link"),
.fname = "initramfs_test_hardlink_link",
.data = "ASDF",
- }, {
- /* hardlink hashtable leaks when the archive omits a trailer */
- .magic = "070701",
- .namesize = sizeof("TRAILER!!!"),
- .fname = "TRAILER!!!",
} };
cpio_srcbuf = kmalloc(8192, GFP_KERNEL);
--
2.43.0
