From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ilija Hadzic , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 3.4 09/60] devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:05:50 -0800 Message-Id: <20131202190332.218746775@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20131202190330.152596462@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131202190330.152596462@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ilija Hadzic commit 66da0e1f9034140ae2f571ef96e254a25083906c upstream. When devpts is unmounted, there may be a no-longer-used IDR tree hanging off the superblock we are about to kill. This needs to be cleaned up before destroying the SB. The leak is usually not a big deal because unmounting devpts is typically done when shutting down the whole machine. However, shutting down an LXC container instead of a physical machine exposes the problem (the garbage is detectable with kmemleak). Signed-off-by: Ilija Hadzic Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/devpts/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c @@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ static void devpts_kill_sb(struct super_ { struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb); + ida_destroy(&fsi->allocated_ptys); kfree(fsi); kill_litter_super(sb); }