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SubjectRe: Fwd: [PATCH] x86: Plug memory leak in sparse irq
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:57 AM
> > Subject: [PATCH] x86: Plug memory leak in sparse irq
> > To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: x86@kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > free_irq_cfg() is not freeing the cpumask_vars in irq_cfg.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > @@ -311,9 +311,11 @@ void arch_init_copy_chip_data(struct irq
> > init_copy_irq_2_pin(old_cfg, cfg, node);
> > }
> >
> > -static void free_irq_cfg(struct irq_cfg *old_cfg)
> > +static void free_irq_cfg(struct irq_cfg *cfg)
> > {
> > - kfree(old_cfg);
> > + free_cpumask_var(cfg->domain);
> > + free_cpumask_var(cfg->old_domain);
> > + kfree(cfg);
> > }
> >
> > void arch_free_chip_data(struct irq_desc *old_desc, struct irq_desc *desc)
>
> yes. still need

Was about to send that out next.

> [PATCH] x86: copy cpumask while copying chip_data for offstack cpumask
>
> While looking Thomas's
> | x86: Plug memory leak in sparse irq
>
> found copy_chip_data() could copy the cpumask pointers instead of real data.
> Need to use cpumask_copy there.

Sigh. That code should just depend on CONFIG_BROKEN, really.

Thanks,

tglx


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