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SubjectRe: Possible mem leak in copy_process()

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:

> > 1331 if (likely(p->pid)) {

> > 1351 }

> > Event leaked_storage: Returned without freeing storage "pid" Also
> > see events: [alloc_fn][var_assign][pass_arg]
>
> this looks like a false alarm.
>
> p->pid == pid->numbers[0].nr. If "struct pid *pid" was allocated, its
> .nr can't be 0.
>
> IOW, !p->pid means that pid == init_struct_pid, it wasn't allocated
> but was passed from the caller.

should we perhaps codify this rule via adding something like this to the
else branch:

WARN_ON_ONCE(task_pid(p) != &init_struct_pid);

?

Ingo


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