[ PATCH ] Memory leak fix for bug 57101.

From: Anurup m
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 06:06:57 EST


Hi All,

There is a kernel memory leak observed when the proc file /proc/fs/fscache/stats is read.
The reason is that in fscache_stats_open, single_open is called and respective release function is not called during release.
Hence fix with correct release function - single_release. The patch is as below

diff -uprN -X linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c
--- linux-3.9-rc8-vanilla/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-22 03:08:45.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-3.9-rc8.mod/fs/fscache/stats.c 2013-04-24 23:03:31.531296160 +0530
@@ -287,5 +287,5 @@ const struct file_operations fscache_sta
.open = fscache_stats_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
- .release = seq_release,
+ .release = single_release,
};

Regards,
Anurup M
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