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From: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	serue@us.ibm.com, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a memory leak when freeing up non init usernamespaces users
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:53:19 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090306052319.GD4809@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)


Fix a memory leak when freeing up non init usernamespaces users

We were returning early in the sysfs directory cleanup function
if the user belonged to a non init usernamespace. Due to this a lot
of the cleanup was not done and we were left with a leak. Fix the leak.

Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/user.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/user.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/user.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/user.c
@@ -286,14 +286,12 @@ int __init uids_sysfs_init(void)
 /* work function to remove sysfs directory for a user and free up
  * corresponding structures.
  */
-static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct work_struct *w)
+static void cleanup_user_struct(struct work_struct *w)
 {
 	struct user_struct *up = container_of(w, struct user_struct, work);
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int remove_user = 0;
 
-	if (up->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
-		return;
 	/* Make uid_hash_remove() + sysfs_remove_file() + kobject_del()
 	 * atomic.
 	 */
@@ -312,9 +310,11 @@ static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct
 	if (!remove_user)
 		goto done;
 
-	kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
-	kobject_del(&up->kobj);
-	kobject_put(&up->kobj);
+	if (up->user_ns == &init_user_ns) {
+		kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
+		kobject_del(&up->kobj);
+		kobject_put(&up->kobj);
+	}
 
 	sched_destroy_user(up);
 	key_put(up->uid_keyring);
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void free_user(struct user_struct
 	atomic_inc(&up->__count);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
 
-	INIT_WORK(&up->work, remove_user_sysfs_dir);
+	INIT_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct);
 	schedule_work(&up->work);
 }
 
-- 
regards,
Dhaval

             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06  5:23 Dhaval Giani [this message]
2009-03-06 13:54 ` [PATCH] Fix a memory leak when freeing up non init usernamespaces users Serge E. Hallyn

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