From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755195Ab0AZT3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:29:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755185Ab0AZT3v (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:29:51 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:33625 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755087Ab0AZT3G (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:29:06 -0500 X-Mailbox-Line: From gregkh@mini.kroah.org Tue Jan 26 11:16:25 2010 Message-Id: <20100126191625.055697697@mini.kroah.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-1 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:14:46 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Serge E. Hallyn" , Nick Piggin Subject: [10/11] ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr) In-Reply-To: <20100126191730.GA20872@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Serge E. Hallyn commit 7d6feeb287c61aafa88f06345387b1188edf4b86 upstream. We have apparently had a memory leak since 7ca7e564e049d8b350ec9d958ff25eaa24226352 "ipc: store ipcs into IDRs" in 2007. The idr of which 3 exist for each ipc namespace is never freed. This patch simply frees them when the ipcns is freed. I don't believe any idr_remove() are done from rcu (and could therefore be delayed until after this idr_destroy()), so the patch should be safe. Some quick testing showed no harm, and the memory leak fixed. Caught by kmemleak. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- ipc/msg.c | 1 + ipc/sem.c | 1 + ipc/shm.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/ipc/msg.c +++ b/ipc/msg.c @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ void msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *n void msg_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { free_ipcs(ns, &msg_ids(ns), freeque); + idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].ipcs_idr); } #endif --- a/ipc/sem.c +++ b/ipc/sem.c @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ void sem_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *n void sem_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { free_ipcs(ns, &sem_ids(ns), freeary); + idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_SEM_IDS].ipcs_idr); } #endif --- a/ipc/shm.c +++ b/ipc/shm.c @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ static void do_shm_rmid(struct ipc_names void shm_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { free_ipcs(ns, &shm_ids(ns), do_shm_rmid); + idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].ipcs_idr); } #endif