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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 04/15] ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:22:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231216042242.803616937@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20231216042214.905262999@goodmis.org

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Reading the ring buffer does a swap of a sub-buffer within the ring buffer
with a empty sub-buffer. This allows the reader to have full access to the
content of the sub-buffer that was swapped out without having to worry
about contention with the writer.

The readers call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to allocate a page that
will be used to swap with the ring buffer. When the code is finished with
the reader page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(). Instead of freeing
the page, it stores it as a spare. Then next call to
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() will return this spare instead of calling
into the memory management system to allocate a new page.

Unfortunately, on freeing of the ring buffer, this spare page is not
freed, and causes a memory leak.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210221250.7b9cc83c@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index b8986f82eccf..dcd47895b424 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1787,6 +1787,8 @@ static void rb_free_cpu_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 		free_buffer_page(bpage);
 	}
 
+	free_page((unsigned long)cpu_buffer->free_page);
+
 	kfree(cpu_buffer);
 }
 
-- 
2.42.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-16  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20231216042214.905262999@goodmis.org>
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 01/15] ring-buffer: Fix writing to the buffer with max_data_size Steven Rostedt
2023-12-16  4:22 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 05/15] tracing: Update snapshot buffer on resize if it is allocated Steven Rostedt
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 06/15] ring-buffer: Do not update before stamp when switching sub-buffers Steven Rostedt
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 07/15] ring-buffer: Have saved event hold the entire event Steven Rostedt
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 10/15] ring-buffer: Do not try to put back write_stamp Steven Rostedt
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 12/15] ring-buffer: Fix a race in rb_time_cmpxchg() for 32 bit archs Steven Rostedt
2023-12-16  4:22 ` [for-linus][PATCH 14/15] ring-buffer: Have rb_time_cmpxchg() set the msb counter too Steven Rostedt

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