Re: Memory (skb) leak in kernel 4.8-rc2

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Larry,

> I am seeing two skb leaks in the BT sub-system for kernel 4.8-rc2. I only recently re-enabled kmemleak, but I do not think I saw these leaks in 4.7.
> 
> The first leak is at btusb_recv_intr+0x12b/0x170 [btusb]. This address refers to the call to bt_skb_alloc() in routine btusb_recv_intr().

do you have a backtrace for this one? Also which hardware is this?

> The second leak is at hci_event_packet+0xb8/0x30b0 [bluetooth]. The backtrace for this address is
> 
> 0x13d38 is in hci_event_packet (net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5254).
> 5249             * various handlers may modify the original one through
> 5250             * skb_pull() calls, etc.
> 5251             */
> 5252            if (req_complete_skb || event == HCI_EV_CMD_STATUS ||
> 5253                event == HCI_EV_CMD_COMPLETE)
> 5254                    orig_skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
> 5255
> 5256            skb_pull(skb, HCI_EVENT_HDR_SIZE);
> 5257
> 5258            switch (event) {
> 
> I am unable to unload module bluetooth to verify that the second leak is not a false positive; however, the one in btusb is a real memory leak.

I can not see a leak. Maybe Johan has an idea.

Regards

Marcel