Re: kmemleak: unreferenced object in copy_thread

[Wouter M. Koolen]

Add i915 maintainer Keith Packard to CC.

On 11/30/2011 08:02 PM, Wouter M. Koolen wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 11:54 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > I can't yet tell whether it's a false positive or not. Did the X
> > server die? Is the process with pid 1415 still around? The leaked
> > object looks like the thread stack (8K) and it should have been
> > removed when the corresponding process was killed.
> Hi Catalin,
>
> Just got lucky and hit it again. This time it occurred without 
> killing. Here's the splat:
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff880003eda000 (size 8192):
>   comm "Xorg", pid 1117, jiffies 4295143832 (age 34745.832s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f 00 00 00 0f 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff813feeb1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
>     [<ffffffff8111086b>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xdb/0x1d0
>     [<ffffffff81001fbe>] copy_thread+0x1be/0x260
>     [<ffffffff81044953>] copy_process+0xee3/0x1520
>     [<ffffffff810450d6>] do_fork+0x116/0x350
>     [<ffffffff8100a7d3>] sys_clone+0x23/0x30
>     [<ffffffff8141c173>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
>     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> The process 1117 is still alive. It is
>
> root      1117  2.1  1.3 147484 28152 tty7     Ss+  09:55  13:02 
> /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -br -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-Tdu4bb
>
>
> Actually, there now are several splats of a second kind, relating to 
> i915 gem buffers (attached). This type of splat has been reported 
> before in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/4/15
> although that thread seems to be a dead end. Maybe these warnings have 
> a common source?
>
> What would be a good next step?
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Wouter Koolen
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