Re: struct pid memory leak

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 07:14:33PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> I've attached my .config.
>> Also run this program in a parallel loop. I think it's leaking not
>> every time, probably some race is involved.
>
> Thank you. Just in order to confirm, am I supposed to see the
> messages you quoted in dmesg ?


I think the simplest way to confirm that you can reproduce it locally
is to check /proc/slabinfo. When I run this program in a parallel
loop, number of objects in pid cache was constantly growing:

# cat /proc/slabinfo | grep pid
pid                  297    532    576   28    4 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata     19     19      0
...
pid                  412    532    576   28    4 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata     19     19      0
...
pid                 1107   1176    576   28    4 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata     42     42      0
...
pid                 1545   1652    576   28    4 : tunables    0    0
  0 : slabdata     59     59      0


If you want to use kmemleak, then you need to run this program in a
parallel loop for some time, then stop it and then:

$ echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

If kmemleak has detected any leaks, cat will show them. I noticed that
kmemleak can delay leaks with significant delay, so usually I do scan
at least 5 times.