Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:17:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.31 and later] "struct pid" leak. |
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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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