Patch "perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace

to the 4.14-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:
     perf-core-fix-memory-leak-triggered-by-perf-namespace.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 foo@baz Thu Feb  1 13:45:42 CET 2018
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:47:02 +0300
Subject: perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace

From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>


[ Upstream commit 0e18dd12064e07519f7cbff4149ca7fff620cbed ]

perf with --namespace key leaks various memory objects including namespaces

  4.14.0+
  pid_namespace          1     12   2568   12    8
  user_namespace         1     39    824   39    8
  net_namespace          1      5   6272    5    8

This happen because perf_fill_ns_link_info() struct patch ns_path:
during initialization ns_path incremented counters on related mnt and dentry,
but without lost path_put nobody decremented them back.
Leaked dentry is name of related namespace,
and its leak does not allow to free unused namespace.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: commit e422267322cd ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c510711b-3904-e5e1-d296-61273d21118d@virtuozzo.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>
---
 kernel/events/core.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6756,6 +6756,7 @@ static void perf_fill_ns_link_info(struc
 		ns_inode = ns_path.dentry->d_inode;
 		ns_link_info->dev = new_encode_dev(ns_inode->i_sb->s_dev);
 		ns_link_info->ino = ns_inode->i_ino;
+		path_put(&ns_path);
 	}
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vvs@virtuozzo.com are

queue-4.14/lockd-fix-list_add-double-add-caused-by-legacy-signal-interface.patch
queue-4.14/grace-replace-bug_on-by-warn_once-in-exit_net-hook.patch
queue-4.14/perf-core-fix-memory-leak-triggered-by-perf-namespace.patch
queue-4.14/race-of-lockd-inetaddr-notifiers-vs-nlmsvc_rqst-change.patch