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From: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: imunsie@au1.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cxl: Fix struct pid leak when attaching a process through kernel API
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 2015 13:20:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446553215-18273-1-git-send-email-fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

When the cxl driver creates a context, it stores the pid of the
calling task, and mistakenly increments the reference count of the
struct pid twice, once through get_task_pid(), once through
get_pid(). The reference count is only decremented once on detach. As
a result, a struct pid is leaked and it reduces the number of
processes that can run simultaneously by one.
The fix is to simply remove the call to get_pid().

There is a separate patch for the user API, since it goes to
different kernel versions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
---
 drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
index 103baf0..94b6627 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ int cxl_start_context(struct cxl_context *ctx, u64 wed,
 
 	if (task) {
 		ctx->pid = get_task_pid(task, PIDTYPE_PID);
-		get_pid(ctx->pid);
 		kernel = false;
 	}
 
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-03 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-03 12:20 Frederic Barrat [this message]
2015-11-03 22:26 ` [PATCH] cxl: Fix struct pid leak when attaching a process through kernel API Ian Munsie
2015-11-03 22:45 ` Andrew Donnellan

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