Patch "[PATCH 105/135] perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM memory leak and notifier leak" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    [PATCH 105/135] perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM memory leak and notifier leak

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     0105-perf-x86-cqm-Fix-CQM-memory-leak-and-notifier-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a134c91bceb0f44a23207876f9a1b580c3f894fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:32:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 105/135] perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM memory leak and notifier leak

[ Upstream commit ada2f634cd50d050269b67b4e2966582387e7c27 ]

Fixes the hotcpu notifier leak and other global variable memory leaks
during CQM (cache quality of service monitoring) initialization.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: h.peter.anvin@intel.com
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457652732-4499-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c
@@ -211,6 +211,20 @@ static void __put_rmid(u32 rmid)
 	list_add_tail(&entry->list, &cqm_rmid_limbo_lru);
 }
 
+static void cqm_cleanup(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	if (!cqm_rmid_ptrs)
+		return;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < cqm_max_rmid; i++)
+		kfree(cqm_rmid_ptrs[i]);
+
+	kfree(cqm_rmid_ptrs);
+	cqm_rmid_ptrs = NULL;
+}
+
 static int intel_cqm_setup_rmid_cache(void)
 {
 	struct cqm_rmid_entry *entry;
@@ -218,7 +232,7 @@ static int intel_cqm_setup_rmid_cache(vo
 	int r = 0;
 
 	nr_rmids = cqm_max_rmid + 1;
-	cqm_rmid_ptrs = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cqm_rmid_entry *) *
+	cqm_rmid_ptrs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cqm_rmid_entry *) *
 				nr_rmids, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cqm_rmid_ptrs)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -249,11 +263,9 @@ static int intel_cqm_setup_rmid_cache(vo
 	mutex_unlock(&cache_mutex);
 
 	return 0;
-fail:
-	while (r--)
-		kfree(cqm_rmid_ptrs[r]);
 
-	kfree(cqm_rmid_ptrs);
+fail:
+	cqm_cleanup();
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
@@ -1322,7 +1334,7 @@ static const struct x86_cpu_id intel_cqm
 
 static int __init intel_cqm_init(void)
 {
-	char *str, scale[20];
+	char *str = NULL, scale[20];
 	int i, cpu, ret;
 
 	if (!x86_match_cpu(intel_cqm_match))
@@ -1382,16 +1394,25 @@ static int __init intel_cqm_init(void)
 		cqm_pick_event_reader(i);
 	}
 
-	__perf_cpu_notifier(intel_cqm_cpu_notifier);
-
 	ret = perf_pmu_register(&intel_cqm_pmu, "intel_cqm", -1);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
 		pr_err("Intel CQM perf registration failed: %d\n", ret);
-	else
-		pr_info("Intel CQM monitoring enabled\n");
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	pr_info("Intel CQM monitoring enabled\n");
 
+	/*
+	 * Register the hot cpu notifier once we are sure cqm
+	 * is enabled to avoid notifier leak.
+	 */
+	__perf_cpu_notifier(intel_cqm_cpu_notifier);
 out:
 	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+	if (ret) {
+		kfree(str);
+		cqm_cleanup();
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.4/0104-perf-x86-cqm-Fix-CQM-handling-of-grouping-events-int.patch
queue-4.4/0105-perf-x86-cqm-Fix-CQM-memory-leak-and-notifier-leak.patch