From 4a31b424ac0656d1bb17520ee861144fe7a19664 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasily Averin Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:47:02 +0300 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: commit e422267322cd ("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 --- kernel/events/core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 10cdb9c26b5d..ab5ac84f82e2 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6756,6 +6756,7 @@ static void perf_fill_ns_link_info(struct perf_ns_link_info *ns_link_info, ns_inode = ns_path.dentry->d_inode; ns_link_info->dev = new_encode_dev(ns_inode->i_sb->s_dev); ns_link_info->ino = ns_inode->i_ino; + path_put(&ns_path); } } -- cgit