Re: [2.6.31 and later] "struct pid" leak.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 31 2010 - 18:18:19 EST


On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:31:13 +0100
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I got below report with 2.6.33.1 .
> >
> > unreferenced object 0xde144600 (size 64):
> > comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294678101 (age 291.508s)
> > hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> > 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> > 00 00 00 00 04 76 ae de d1 76 43 c0 d6 08 00 00 .....v...vC.....
> > backtrace:
> > [<c0481704>] create_object+0x121/0x1ef
> > [<c05f546b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x42
> > [<c047e326>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive+0x1c/0x22
> > [<c047e36e>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x42/0x68
> > [<c0437701>] alloc_pid+0x19/0x288
> > [<c0428acc>] copy_process+0x95a/0xdac
> > [<c04290d8>] do_fork+0x129/0x261
> > [<c0407de5>] sys_clone+0x1f/0x24
> > [<c040292d>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x28
> > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> > unreferenced object 0xdfa96a40 (size 64):
> > comm "login", pid 2259, jiffies 4294719437 (age 250.179s)
> > hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> > 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> > 00 00 00 00 60 39 ae de d1 76 43 c0 bb 09 00 00 ....`9...vC.....
> > backtrace:
> > [<c0481704>] create_object+0x121/0x1ef
> > [<c05f546b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x42
> > [<c047e326>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive+0x1c/0x22
> > [<c047e36e>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x42/0x68
> > [<c0437701>] alloc_pid+0x19/0x288
> > [<c0428acc>] copy_process+0x95a/0xdac
> > [<c04290d8>] do_fork+0x129/0x261
> > [<c0407de5>] sys_clone+0x1f/0x24
> > [<c040292d>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x28
> > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
>
> I reported similar leaks last year -
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/8/422. There is some analysis in the thread
> above of the reference counting but I couldn't figure out where it goes
> wrong. It looks to me like there isn't any reference to a struct pid
> block but its reference count is 2.
>
> There is a bugzilla entry as well -
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13868
>

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