From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.12-rc3 memory leak in module memstick
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:03:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524B0065.60200@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHkRjk6Wuf4Lcd1mN0ZuKBb9aX2VqoUVMG_UWkKNdRSM3407+Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/01/2013 09:04 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 30 September 2013 18:51, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> On 3.12-rc3, I detected a memory leak in module memstick. The kmemleak
>> results are listed below. The second output is after memstick was unloaded,
>> which shows that it is not a false positive from kmemleak.
>>
>> larrylap:~ # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>> larrylap:~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>> unreferenced object 0xffff8800ae85c190 (size 16):
>> comm "kworker/u4:3", pid 685, jiffies 4294916336 (age 2831.760s)
>> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
>> 6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 memstick0.......
>> backtrace:
>> [<ffffffff8146a0d1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
>> [<ffffffff81160720>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x160/0x2f0
>> [<ffffffff81237b9b>] kvasprintf+0x5b/0x90
>> [<ffffffff8122c0c1>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x60
>> [<ffffffff812e7f5c>] dev_set_name+0x3c/0x40
>> [<ffffffffa02bf918>] memstick_check+0xb8/0x340 [memstick]
>> [<ffffffff81069862>] process_one_work+0x1d2/0x670
>> [<ffffffff8106a88a>] worker_thread+0x11a/0x370
>> [<ffffffff81072ea6>] kthread+0xd6/0xe0
>> [<ffffffff81478bbc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>
> The leak is most likely coming from memstick_alloc_card() on the error
> path. Commit 0252c3b4f0 (memstick: struct device - replace bus_id with
> dev_name(), dev_set_name()) sets allocates the device name but 'card'
> is freed on the error path without freeing the name.
Thanks for the analysis. From that I am quite sure I can devise a patch.
Larry
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2013-09-30 17:51 3.12-rc3 memory leak in module memstick Larry Finger
2013-10-01 14:04 ` Catalin Marinas
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