From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix leak on /proc/lockdep_stats
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:57:36 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717125736.GE25083@localhost.sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717123511.GB17657@elte.hu>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:36:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> wrote:
>
> > On every open/close one struct seq_operations leaks.
> > Kudos to /proc/slab_allocators.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
>
> ouch ...
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
> -stable material too, as far as timer_info/stats goes.
>
> > - .release = seq_release,
> > + .release = single_release,
>
> i think seq_release() definitely needs to grow a WARN_ON() if it's being
> used on an inode that was opened via single_open(). This bug is so
> easily committed, and nothing but a small leak reminds us on it.
Yeah, I'll try to come up with something clean.
Meanwhile full single_open() audit revealed one more such leak.
The rest seems OK.
[PATCH] Fix leak on /proc/lockdep_stats
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
---
kernel/lockdep_proc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/lockdep_proc.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep_proc.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_lockdep_stats_operations = {
.open = lockdep_stats_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
- .release = seq_release,
+ .release = single_release,
};
static int __init lockdep_proc_init(void)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 12:25 [PATCH] Fix leaks on /proc/{*/sched,sched_debug,timer_list,timer_stats} Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-17 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 12:57 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2007-07-18 0:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-18 1:28 ` Chris Wright
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