Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 01/46] modules: fix module "notes" kobject leak | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:10:02 -0700 |
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Fix "notes" kobject leak
It happens every rmmod if KALLSYMS=y and SYSFS=y.
# modprobe foo
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'module', set: 'module' kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>' kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo' kobject: 'notes' (ffff88017fa9b668): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>' ^^^^^
# rmmod foo
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_cleanup kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): auto cleanup kobject_del kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): calling ktype release kobject: (ffff88017e7c5770): dynamic_kobj_release kobject: 'holders': free name kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_cleanup kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup 'remove' event kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo' kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup kobject_del kobject: 'foo': free name
[whooops]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 9db1191..d5fcd24 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ static void free_notes_attrs(struct module_notes_attrs *notes_attrs, while (i-- > 0) sysfs_remove_bin_file(notes_attrs->dir, ¬es_attrs->attrs[i]); - kobject_del(notes_attrs->dir); + kobject_put(notes_attrs->dir); } kfree(notes_attrs); } -- 1.6.0.2
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