linux/kernel/events
Vasily Averin 4a31b424ac perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace
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 e422267322 ("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>
2017-11-15 09:48:10 +01:00
..
callchain.c perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user() 2017-05-10 07:54:00 +02:00
core.c perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace 2017-11-15 09:48:10 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Collapse and fix event_function_call() users 2016-01-21 18:54:24 +01:00
internal.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf/aux: Only update ->aux_wakeup in non-overwrite mode 2017-09-29 10:06:45 +02:00
uprobes.c mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area 2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00