From: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
To: tj@kernel.org, void@manifault.com, arighi@nvidia.com,
changwoo@igalia.com
Cc: sched-ext@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
qiang.zhang@linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] sched_ext: Fix the memleak for sch->helper objects
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 19:23:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251208112320.27144-1-qiang.zhang@linux.dev> (raw)
This commit use kthread_destroy_worker() to release sch->helper
objects to fix the following kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff888121ec7b00 (size 128):
comm "scx_simple", pid 1197, jiffies 4295884415
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de .............N..
ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
backtrace (crc 587b3352):
kmemleak_alloc+0x62/0xa0
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x28d/0x3e0
kthread_create_worker_on_node+0xd5/0x1f0
scx_enable.isra.210+0x6c2/0x25b0
bpf_scx_reg+0x12/0x20
bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x2c3/0x3b0
__sys_bpf+0x3102/0x4b00
__x64_sys_bpf+0x79/0xc0
x64_sys_call+0x15d9/0x1dd0
do_syscall_64+0xf0/0x470
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
---
kernel/sched/ext.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index df00df359067..59fa391636c7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -3516,7 +3516,7 @@ static void scx_sched_free_rcu_work(struct work_struct *work)
int node;
irq_work_sync(&sch->error_irq_work);
- kthread_stop(sch->helper->task);
+ kthread_destroy_worker(sch->helper);
free_percpu(sch->pcpu);
@@ -4508,7 +4508,7 @@ static struct scx_sched *scx_alloc_and_add_sched(struct sched_ext_ops *ops)
return sch;
err_stop_helper:
- kthread_stop(sch->helper->task);
+ kthread_destroy_worker(sch->helper);
err_free_pcpu:
free_percpu(sch->pcpu);
err_free_gdsqs:
--
2.17.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-12-08 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-08 11:23 Zqiang [this message]
2025-12-08 11:23 ` [PATCH] sched_ext: Fix lockdep warnings in the ops_dump_init() Zqiang
2025-12-08 11:29 ` Christian Loehle
2025-12-08 13:25 ` Zqiang
2025-12-08 17:12 ` [PATCH] sched_ext: Fix the memleak for sch->helper objects Tejun Heo
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