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    SubjectRe: [2.6.31 and later] "struct pid" leak.
    On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:31:13 +0100
    Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:

    > Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:
    > > I got below report with 2.6.33.1 .
    > >
    > > unreferenced object 0xde144600 (size 64):
    > > comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294678101 (age 291.508s)
    > > hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    > > 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    > > 00 00 00 00 04 76 ae de d1 76 43 c0 d6 08 00 00 .....v...vC.....
    > > backtrace:
    > > [<c0481704>] create_object+0x121/0x1ef
    > > [<c05f546b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x42
    > > [<c047e326>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive+0x1c/0x22
    > > [<c047e36e>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x42/0x68
    > > [<c0437701>] alloc_pid+0x19/0x288
    > > [<c0428acc>] copy_process+0x95a/0xdac
    > > [<c04290d8>] do_fork+0x129/0x261
    > > [<c0407de5>] sys_clone+0x1f/0x24
    > > [<c040292d>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x28
    > > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
    > > unreferenced object 0xdfa96a40 (size 64):
    > > comm "login", pid 2259, jiffies 4294719437 (age 250.179s)
    > > hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    > > 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
    > > 00 00 00 00 60 39 ae de d1 76 43 c0 bb 09 00 00 ....`9...vC.....
    > > backtrace:
    > > [<c0481704>] create_object+0x121/0x1ef
    > > [<c05f546b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x42
    > > [<c047e326>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive+0x1c/0x22
    > > [<c047e36e>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x42/0x68
    > > [<c0437701>] alloc_pid+0x19/0x288
    > > [<c0428acc>] copy_process+0x95a/0xdac
    > > [<c04290d8>] do_fork+0x129/0x261
    > > [<c0407de5>] sys_clone+0x1f/0x24
    > > [<c040292d>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x28
    > > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
    >
    > I reported similar leaks last year -
    > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/8/422. There is some analysis in the thread
    > above of the reference counting but I couldn't figure out where it goes
    > wrong. It looks to me like there isn't any reference to a struct pid
    > block but its reference count is 2.
    >
    > There is a bugzilla entry as well -
    > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13868
    >

    Let's bug some people by cc'ing them ;)


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