Re: [lttng-dev] 回复： 回复： 回复： shm leak in traced application?

[Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>]

----- On Mar 8, 2022, at 12:18 AM, lttng-dev lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org wrote:

> Hi,
> In shm_object_table_append_shm()/alloc_shm()， why not calling FD_CLOEXEC fcntl()
> to shmfds? I guess this omission leads to shm fds leak.

Those file descriptors are created when received by ustcomm_recv_fds_unix_sock, and
immediately after creation they are set as FD_CLOEXEC.

We should continue this discussion in the bug tracker as suggested by Jonathan.
It would greatly help if you can provide a small reproducer.

Thanks,

Mathieu


> Thanks
> zhenyu.ren

>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 发件人：Jonathan Rajotte-Julien <jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com>
>> 发送时间：2022年2月25日(星期五) 22:31
>> 收件人：zhenyu.ren <zhenyu.ren@aliyun.com>
>> 抄 送：lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
>> 主 题：Re: [lttng-dev] 回复： 回复： shm leak in traced application?

>> Hi zhenyu.ren,

>> Please open a bug on our bug tracker and provide a reproducer against the latest
>> stable version (2.13.x).

>> https://bugs.lttng.org/

>> Please follow the guidelines: https://bugs.lttng.org/#Bug-reporting-guidelines

>> Cheers

>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:47:34PM +0800, zhenyu.ren via lttng-dev wrote:
>> > Hi, lttng-dev team
>>> When lttng-sessiond exits, the ust applications should call
>>> lttng_ust_objd_table_owner_cleanup() and clean up all shm resource(unmap and
>>> close). Howerver I do find that the ust applications keep opening "all" of the
>> > shm fds("/dev/shm/ust-shm-consumer-81132 (deleted)") and do NOT free shm.
>>> If we run lttng-sessiond again, ust applications can get a new piece of shm and
>>> a new list of shm fds so double shm usages. Then if we kill lttng-sessiond,
>>> what the mostlikely happened is ust applications close the new list of shm fds
>>> and free new shm resource but keeping old shm still. In other word, we can not
>> > free this piece of shm unless we killing ust applications!!!
>>> So Is there any possilbe that ust applications failed calling
>>> lttng_ust_objd_table_owner_cleanup()? Do you have ever see this problem? Do you
>>> have any advice to free the shm without killling ust applications(I tried to
>> > dig into kernel shm_open and /dev/shm, but not found any ideas)?

>> > Thanks in advance
>> > zhenyu.ren



>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > 发件人：zhenyu.ren via lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
>> > 发送时间：2022年2月23日(星期三) 23:09
>> > 收件人：lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
>> > 主 题：[lttng-dev] 回复： shm leak in traced application?

>>> >"I found these items also exist in a traced application which is a long-time
>> > >running daemon"
>> > Even if lttng-sessiond has been killed!!

>> > Thanks
>> > zhenyu.ren
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > 发件人：zhenyu.ren via lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
>> > 发送时间：2022年2月23日(星期三) 22:44
>> > 收件人：lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
>> > 主 题：[lttng-dev] shm leak in traced application?

>> > Hi,
>>> There are many items such as "/dev/shm/ust-shm-consumer-81132 (deleted)" exist
>>> in lttng-sessiond fd spaces. I know it is the result of shm_open() and
>> > shm_unlnik() in create_posix_shm().
>>> However, today, I found these items also exist in a traced application which is
>>> a long-time running daemon. The most important thing I found is that there
>> > seems no reliable way to release share memory.
>>> I tried to kill lttng-sessiond but not always release share memory. Sometimes I
>>> need to kill the traced application to free share memory....But it is not a
>> > good idea to kill these applications.
>> > My questions are:
>>> 1. Is there any way to release share memory without killing any traced
>> > application?
>>> 2. Is it normal that many items such as "/dev/shm/ust-shm-consumer-81132
>> > (deleted)" exist in the traced application?

>> > Thanks
>> > zhenyu.ren



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