From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 stable 4.9] proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:23:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180813092325.GB6381@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1534151298-32258-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:08:15PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches fix a memory leak in per-cpu areas in v4.9.y
>
> The following command sequence
>
> while :; do
> c=$(docker create busybox)
> docker start $c
> docker stop $c
> docker rm $c
> done
>
> causes the number of pcpu_get_vm_area entries in /proc/vmallocinfo to grow.
>
> The commit d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during
> unregistering") fixes the issue and the commits ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl:
> Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.") and 2fd1d2c4ceb2 ("proc: Fix
> proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference") are the follow-up fixups.
>
> I've also checked v4.4 and the issue does not appear there.
>
> Eric W. Biederman (2):
> proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.
> proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference
>
> Konstantin Khlebnikov (1):
> proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
What is the git commit ids of these patches that are in Linus's tree? I
need those to be able to apply this.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-13 9:08 [PATCH 0/3 stable 4.9] proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering Mike Rapoport
2018-08-13 9:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Mike Rapoport
2018-08-13 9:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock Mike Rapoport
2018-08-13 9:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference Mike Rapoport
2018-08-13 9:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-08-13 9:24 ` [PATCH 0/3 stable 4.9] proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering Greg KH
2018-08-13 10:04 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-08-13 17:13 ` Greg KH
2018-08-13 17:38 ` Mike Rapoport
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